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Rod Nordland, 75, Dies; War Reporter Who Also Wrote of His Own Struggle

Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.

© Isaac Lawrence for The New York Times

Rod Nordland in 2018, a year before his cancer diagnosis. A reporter for 40 years, he covered most of the world’s major wars before turning his attention to his own health crisis.
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