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...alternative energy sources." Turner happily pays the bills for CNN's seven domestic bureaus and five foreign bureaus (Rome, London, Tel Aviv, Cairo and Tokyo). Total cost of running CNN: a substantial $51 million a year. But then, TV news is always an expensive business. ABC, NBC and CBS decline to reveal their news budgets, but industry sources say each spends about $150 million a year. A single installment of the weekday evening news costs at minimum about $200,000 and can range far higher; one report from Lebanon consumes about $4,000, not counting travel, editing and courier...
...shelling, and gradually it got closer and heavier. There was also shelling in the vicinity of Basra and the neighboring town of Abu al Khasib. It was amazing to see how people just carried on in the midst of it all." Meanwhile, Gart went to Jerusalem and then to Cairo, where, with TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, he interviewed high-level Egyptian officials before returning to Jordan to talk with government sources close to the King...
Though the Israeli bombardment abated as the week went on, moving around the city or out into the hills to cover the fighting remained extremely hazardous. But it was possible. Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, sent into Beirut two weeks ago, found that "you can still travel by taxi, but charges jump from $22 to as much as $200 for a nine-mile ride, depending on how dangerous an area you want to go to." Of course, the whereabouts of danger was unpredictable. On a quiet street, a small van blew up less than 50 yards ahead of Suro...
...human displacement and despair had become appallingly commonplace in Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli blitz. To look into the plight of the civilians who were in the path of the invasion, TIME sent four journalists into the area: Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro, Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, Cairo Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt and Reporter Leroy Aarons. Their combined report...
...along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley." Two days later, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, with the Beirut airport still shut down, hired a taxi for the three-hour drive from Damascus, dodging Syrian tanks on the ground and hearing Israeli jets overhead. Reaching the Lebanese capital, he found a city filled with rumors, refugees and fear...