![]() He went to Cuba shortly after the 1962 missile crisis. From Hong Kong, he wrote about China’s Cultural Revolution. ![]() ![]() Behr covered wars in Algeria, Angola, Congo, Vietnam, Lebanon and Northern Ireland. The year 1968 turned out to be a hectic one for Behr: he was in Saigon during the Tet offensive, in Paris for the student riots and in Prague when it was occupied by the Russians.īehr turned gradually from a career in war reporting to writing books and making television documentaries, including award-winning programmes on India, Ireland and the Kennedy family.Ī notable production was The American Way of Death, Behr’s look at America’s undertaking industry.ĭuring his years roaming the globe, Mr. Operating from Hong Kong as Asia bureau chief, Behr wrote on China’s Cultural Revolution, secured an interview with Mao Zedong and reported from Vietnam. He wrote about the unrest in Ulster, the fighting in Angola and the Moroccan attack on Ifni, the Spanish enclave in West Africa. ![]() Later he joined Time-Life as Paris correspondent, and in the late 1950s and early 1960s often covered the fighting in the Congo, the civil war in Lebanon as well as the Indo-Chinese border clashes of 1962. He then became press officer with Jean Monnet at the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg from 1954 to 1956. ![]() Edward Samuel Behr died on the 27th of May 2007 in Paris at the age of 81 he was a foreign correspondent and war journalist, who worked for many years for Newsweek.īorn on the 7th of May 1926, his early career as a reporter was with Reuters in London and Paris. ![]()
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