Word: gart
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Meanwhile, in another Middle East capital preoccupied with war, Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis talked for two hours with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was the first interview he had granted to U.S. journalists in a year. Following the interview, he personally led Gart and Brelis on an extraordinary tour of Baghdad. He took the wheel of his bulletproof Mercedes and, with an eleven-car security convoy in tow, pulled off on a whirlwind adventure. All together, Brelis and Gart spent nearly five hours with Saddam Hussein. Sums up Gart: "It was rather nice...
...holy crusade. As Iran's military machine gathers its strength at the Iraqi frontier, the leaders of the Arab gulf states are beginning to fear that such a hypothetical possibility is drawing closer to reality every day. -By William Drozdiak. Reported by Murray J. Gart and Dean Brelis/Baghdad
...call came at 9:30 p.m.: Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, would grant an interview that night. Two hours later, Murray Gart, a Time Inc. senior editor, and TIME Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro were led by a P.L.O. representative through pitch-black streets, past a checkpoint and two platoons of soldiers. It was just after midnight when Arafat welcomed the visitors to an air-conditioned, wood-paneled conference room at his Beirut headquarters. He spoke of his frustrations over U.S. support for Israel and his fears of an impending Israeli strike on southern Lebanon. Excerpts from...
...Washington Post Writer Judy Bachrach, added a second op-ed page and started a morning edition. National and international coverage -long a weak point-were bolstered with the worldwide resources of the Time-Life News Service. Five new community editions broadened the metropolitan coverage. Under Editor Murray J. Gart, 56, former chief of the Time-Life News Service, the Star stressed hard news and straightforward reporting over fancy writing and instant analysis. The paper won two Pulitzer Prizes (for editorials in 1979 and criticism in 1981) and numerous other awards. Said Henry Grunwald, Time Inc. editor in chief: "Many observers...
...radios or read it in a black-bordered announcement on the Star's front page. Said Sports Columnist Morris Siegel, 61, whose 19th anniversary with the paper coincides with its closing: "For once we beat the Post on the big story-damn it to hell." Editor Murray Gart (who had observed earlier: "I'm as intensely proud of the staff of the Star as any editor can be") presided over a wake. Staffers sipped champagne while checking the cluttered newsroom bulletin board for job openings at other papers. Late in the afternoon, a message from Katharine Graham, board...