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...Delhi Bureau Chief Edward Behr. 36, served for three years in the Indian army as a British officer during World War II. was demobbed as a major after India's independence...
Correspondent Behr is no stranger to covering wars. After five years of following the Algerian revolution, he arrived at his new post in New Delhi on the day that hostilities with the Chinese broke out. He found that many of his old friends, subalterns with whom he had soldiered in the Royal Garhwal Rifles, were now battalion commanders or higher in the front lines against the Chinese. Scarcely had Behr arrived before he was on his way to the forward headquarters at Tezpur. Soldier to soldier, an Indian commander told him: "We are hanging by our eyelashes." Emergency living conditions...
Upon arriving in Tirana, Correspondent Behr was firmly taken in hand by a state guide from Albtourist, who accompanied him everywhere, tried to take him sightseeing in locked buses. The guide went through the motions of passing along requests for interviews with government officials, actors, even local journalists; invariably, they were said to be sick, on vacation, or in mourning for suddenly deceased relatives...
Since no foreigner can hire a taxi in Albania, the government guide was a necessary companion. More helpful was a Japanese reporter, who teamed with Behr, was regularly saluted by Albanians, who took him for a Chinese. Outnumbering the man from Albtourist, the two newsmen occasionally split up and deliberately got lost to enjoy a few minutes on their own. These escapes never lasted long, thanks to the ubiquitous secret police, the Sigurimi, and other troops (onefourth of the nation's adult manpower is in uniform). Furthermore, officials cautioned the visitors that if they did not behave themselves, they...
...Albanians are not starving, and benefit from free education, medical care and other social services. Behr saw no evidence that they were in a mood to revolt. Even if they were, Hoxha's successor would probably be no better; in a demonstration of nepotism that outclasses even Hollywood, the party's top leaders are almost all related to Hoxha or Premier Mehmet Shehu...