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

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Rod Nordland, a reporter who for four decades covered most of the world’s major wars for The New York Times and other publications, before turning his journalistic attention to his own life after a fatal cancer diagnosis, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 75.

The cause was glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, his wife, Leila Segal, said.

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