Robert L. Barry, 89, Diplomat Who Negotiated Pact With Soviets, Dies
He was the chief negotiator on a troop-inspections accord that American officials saw as crucial in easing East-West tensions near the end of the Cold War.
By Adam Nossiter
Adam Nossiter has been bureau chief in Kabul, Paris, West Africa and New Orleans. He led the team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. He also won a George Polk Award. He is the author of two New York Times Notable Books, and was first published in The Times in 1992. A graduate magna cum laude of Harvard College, he is now a Domestic Correspondent on the Obituaries desk.
He was the chief negotiator on a troop-inspections accord that American officials saw as crucial in easing East-West tensions near the end of the Cold War.
By Adam Nossiter
He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.
By Adam Nossiter
His exploits in World War II and later in Algeria and Indochina were not enough for him to emerge from the shadow of his father, for whom a thousand streets in France are named.
By Adam Nossiter
A sociologist in New York, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
By Adam Nossiter
She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her story, too, would survive, she depicted them years later in a series of stark paintings.
By Adam Nossiter
A link to France’s first golden age of cinema, she drew international attention for a 1947 film that created a scandal in France and was banned in Britain for years.
By Adam Nossiter
A German-born Jew who became a French writer and activist, he devoted his life to healing the divide between two historic enemies after the trauma of World War II.
By Adam Nossiter
He collaborated on a textbook so unsparing in its review of the state’s grim past that it was barred from schools almost as soon as it appeared.
By Adam Nossiter
In her novels and story collections, she took a sharp, lightly ironic look at the class from which she came, the Southern upper bourgeoisie.
By Adam Nossiter
Imprisoned four times, he spent almost 20 years in Syria’s prisons, nearly 18 in solitary confinement, for speaking out against the Assad regimes. He died in France.
By Adam Nossiter