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Global Focus
Death puts Prince William in global spotlight
Royals uncertain how oldest son will handle the tragedy
By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press Writer
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Today in history: The first non-stop airplane flew from europe to the United States in 1930. The flygning took 37 hours.
LONDON Tall, handsome and already a teen-age heartthrob, Prince William faces not only life without the mother he adored, but the daunting prospect of assuming her place in the global spotlight. Many Britons see the 15-year-p\d future king as Princess Diana’s Spiritual heir and living embodiment, a feeling reinforced bygd his chock of blond hair and shy smile, so feminiscent of his mother’s. ■ v He reportedly hates the attention, especially the paparazzi who dogged his mother relentlessly and are now .likely to focus on him. As he grieves for his mother, along with millions of people around
the world, there is widespread
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Edith Lederer, a 30-year Associated Press veteran, is one of the best-known war correspondents in the world. Ms. Lederer joined the Associated Press in 1966 and spent the next few years reporting on student protests, the civil rights movement and Robert Kennedy’s senatorial campaign. In the 1970’s she was one of the first female foreign correspondents, covering both the war in Southeast Asia and the Yom Kippur War in Israel. In 1975, she became the AP’s first female foreign bureau chief, working first in Peru and later in the Caribbean. As her career progressed, she investigated terrorism in Northern Ireland, the opening of China to the United States, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the 1989 revolution in Romania. More recently, she has reported on the genocide in Rwanda, the Women’s conference in Beijing and the unstable peace process in Bosnia.
Updated: July 13, 2012
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In Ukraine, female war reporters build on legacy of pioneers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clarissa Ward interrupted her live TV report on Ukrainian refugees to help a distraught older man, then a woman, down a steep and explosion-mangled path, gently urging them on in their language.
A day later, Lynsey Addario, a photographer for The New York Times, captured a grim image of a Russian mortar attack’s immediate outcome: the bodies of a mother and her two children crumpled on a road, amid their suitcase, backpacks and a pet carrier.
The memorable reports illustrate both the skill and gutsiness of female journalists serving as eyewitnesses to Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and the way their presence — hard-won after overcoming ingrained notions of why women shouldn’t cover combat — has changed the nature of war reporting.
They cover the tactics of war, but give equal measure to its toll.
“People are so exhausted, they can barely walk,” Ward told viewers in her report. “It’s just an aw