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DIED. Catherine Leroy, 60, fearless, diminutive, French-born war photographer whose raw, intimate glimpses of atrocities during the Vietnam War--among them Corpsman in Anguish, a well-known 1967 photo of a Navy corpsman hunched over his friend's dead body--appeared in LIFE, Look and other publications and won her the prestigious George Polk Award; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...recent investment in Israel is merely part of Orascom's $1.3 billion acquisition of a 19.3% stake in Hutchison Telecom, based in Hong Kong. Sawiris seeks to increase his stake to 51%, thereby extending Orascom's reach to Southeast Asia through Hutchison's businesses in India, Indonesia and Vietnam. From relatively small beginnings less than a decade ago, when it established Mobinil in Egypt, Orascom, which trades on the Cairo-Alexandria stock exchange but is controlled by Sawiris' Rome-based parent company, Weather Investments, became a major presence throughout the Middle East. Sawiris also moved into Pakistan and Bangladesh before...
...Department of Defense, claiming the interests of families, has enforced a ban on photos and videos of coffins, and although journalists complained, it took an independent blogger (Russ Kick, at www.thememoryhole.org to find and publish military photos of the caskets at Dover Air Force Base. And unlike in the Vietnam war, images of battlefield dead, even when available, rarely make it into the American media, in part because of concerns that they would seem intrusive or distasteful. We will spend millions for pictures of Angelina Jolie's baby, but we hesitate to part with a dime of audience capital...
...That Eros was banned, and Ginzburg imprisoned, says less about the magazine and more about the times (and the Times). As everyone now agrees, the 60s really began with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Vietnam protests, the ghetto uprisings, and of course sex, drugs and rock 'n roll cracked open, like a raptor from its egg. For the first years of that decade, we were, essentially, still in the 50s, with Doris Day reigning on the big screen and Father Knows Best on the small...
...current conflict holds many painful memories. In 1982 the Israeli military, led by then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, occupied a small portion of southern Lebanon, vowing to stay only a short time. They did not withdraw until 2000. Many Israelis view the Lebanon years the way Americans think of Vietnam - as a tragic quagmire no one wishes to revisit...