Jack Belden; Author, Foreign Correspondent

Jack Belden, 79, an author and foreign correspondent who covered China both before and after World War II and Africa and Europe during the war. He worked for United Press in the 1930s and then for Time and Life magazines in Burma and North Africa before returning to China to cover the rise to power of Mao Zedong. He wrote three books, “Retreat With Stillwell” (1943), “Still Time to Die” (1944) and “China Shakes the World” (1949). In Paris on Sunday of lung cancer.