Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beirut-based Karsten Prager, whose beat normally includes much of the Arab world, moved to the Syrian side of the war to report from Damascus, while Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante took up temporary station in Beirut...
Jerusalem Correspondent Marlin Levin crossed the Golan Heights into Syria to report on the fighting along the El Quneitra-Damascus road and narrowly missed stepping on an anti-personnel bomb. Marsh Clark temporarily left his post as New York bureau chief and returned to Jerusalem, where he headed our bureau from 1970 to 1972, to cover developments in the Israeli capital. Rounding out TIME'S coverage in the Middle East is London Correspondent William McWhirter, who has been reporting from Jordan since the day King Hussein ordered his troops to mobilize...
Even before the armored columns ambitiously headed toward Damascus, the Israelis had brought the war to the Syrian capital. On the fourth day of fighting, Israeli Phantoms suddenly ap peared over the capital and bombed it. Their targets were the Defense Ministry and the Damascus radio station, both of which they hit. But homes and buildings near the ministry in the fashionable residential quarter of the city occupied by many foreign missions and embassies were also damaged, including a hospital and the Soviet cultural mission. A Norwegian United Nations truce observer, his wife and eight-year-old daughter were killed...
This area is a strategic imperative for both Israel and Syria. When Syria holds the Heights, it threatens the fertile Israeli settlements in the upper Galilee region. When the Israelis hold it, they have a flat, unimpeded access to Damascus, only 40 miles away. In this war, the Golan witnessed some of the bloodiest combat ever waged in the Middle East. When we drove our orange Volkswagen into the area, we at first passed the rusting tanks of the 1967 war. Soon we encountered freshly destroyed tanks, Syrian and Israeli...
...Washington initially went out of their way to avoid confrontation. The Russians did not assert that Israel had fired the first shot in the renewed fighting. Although they excoriated Israel as the aggressor in a general sense and, of course, denounced Israeli bombing of the Soviet Culture Center in Damascus, the polemics were relatively restrained. For its part, the U.S. appeared determined to be calm and polite. Said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "We do not consider that Soviet actions as of now threaten detente." In fact, he said, Soviet behavior, while not "helpful," has so far been "less provocative...