 Her reporting would win her the Overseas Press Club's "Ed Cunningham Award" for best magazine reporting from abroad (with James Pringle, Arnaud de Borchgrave, and Kim Willenson), but it would also prove the highpoint of her career.Riding in Somalia in a Land Rover with a poor suspension, Peer broke her coccyx, an injury which left her in constant pain.Peer returned to New York in 1978.