 After rejecting an offer to leave "Newsweek" to become assistant press secretary under Ron Nessen in the Ford Administration, Peer returned to Paris in 1975 as bureau chief.She added another first in 1977 when "Newsweek" dispatched her to cover the Ogaden War between Ethiopia and Somalia.Rejected for the Vietnam War less than a decade prior, Peer became "Newsweeks" first female war correspondent.