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Cheered & Booed. From Prague to the High Tatra Mountains, reports TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who spent several weeks traveling through Czechoslovakia, the hostility, suspicion and dreariness associated with other Communist states has all but vanished. Unlike Communist bosses elsewhere, the country's leaders make frequent public appearances, are often cheered, booed, photographed and chased for autographs. At the borders, customs officers dutifully glance into the car trunks of foreign visitors, but do not even bother to open their luggage before waving them through. Traffic the other way is heavy too; suddenly able to get passports and visas after years...
Correspondent Israel Shenker, who had interviewed Dayan the week before, was in the office of Israeli Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin when word came that Egypt had accepted the ceasefire. "Where's the champagne?" asked Shenker. Tea was served instead. Meanwhile, Peter Forbath managed to see some of the fighting on three fronts-Gaza, Jordan and Sinai. The trouble was keeping up with the speeding Israeli army. "I saw grotesque dead and wounded, equipment abandoned intact, stunned and frightened captured Arabs," he said. "But in a way, I truly felt the reality of the war in blacked...
...newspaperman from Harrisburg, Pa., he went to the Holy Land on his honeymoon in 1947, stayed on to cover the war of independence, and has been there ever since. When the current clash developed, he was joined by Rome Bureau Chief Israel Shenker and Madrid Bureau Chief Peter Forbath...
Since Israel is on a war footing, outgoing dispatches are subject to censorship, but both Shenker and Forbath were delighted by the censors' light touch. "Every deletion was accompanied by a detailed, reasonable and slightly sorrowful explanation," reported Forbath. "They even offered literary advice or translations from Hebrew into English." Added Shenker: "On saying good night, one of the censors remarked, 'We enjoyed your file.' They are much more sensitive than most editors...
...Opus Dei," he said in a rare interview with TIME'S Madrid bureau chief, Peter Forbath, "was born to tell men and women of every country and of every condition, race, language, milieu and state of life-single, married and priests-that they can love and serve God without giving up their ordinary work, their family or their normal social relations. My teaching has been that sanctity is not reserved for a privileged few. Every profession, every honest task can be divine." In Spain, the membership of Opus Dei includes movie directors, jet pilots, labor leaders, high-fashion hairdressers...