Word: gavin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great drama, of course, was played out on the dusty plain northeast of Amman, and that was where Beirut Bureau Chief Gavin Scott spent much of the week. Scott made several visits to Dawson's Field, the desert flat that the hijackers were using as their "revolution airstrip." "It was a fantastic sight to see the three jets shimmering against a backdrop of endless sand," he reported. The Palestinian commandos themselves were in a state of near hysteria. "There was chaos on our arrival. Our photographer was relieved of his film by a Jeep-load of grisly characters bristling...
...bring peace to the Middle East, Nickel spent several hours in private conversation with Rogers, leading one senior State Department official to complain: "You spend a lot more time with the Secretary than I do." Further analyses came from Lee Griggs, who followed Arab maneuverings from Beirut, while Gavin Scott reported on the situation in Cairo, and John Shaw watched the Israeli Cabinet crisis from Jerusalem. The story itself was written by Spencer Davidson, edited by Senior Editor Jason McManus and researched by Ursula Nadasdy and Anne...
...million subsidy to Egypt this month; since Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is undecided about negotiation, the delay might have been a pointed notice to Nasser to negotiate with care, if at all. Egypt can ill afford such a slight. King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott learned in Cairo last week, has apparently withheld $25 million due Egypt for war support because the King is angry that Arab disunity is keeping the punctured pipeline through which his oil flows from being repaired...
...speak with Israeli border troops. Along with Rome Correspondent John Shaw, who was making his 20th visit to Israel in the past two years, Levin talked with nine of the 13 generals on the Israeli general staff. On the other side of the Arab-Israeli lines, Beirut Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was interviewing officials in Egypt, began his week by breakfasting on the Nile and wound up reporting the melee at Amman Airport as American evacuees boarded rescue planes. He was aided by Rome Bureau Chief Jim Bell, also a veteran Middle East hand. In New York, the cover...
...alleged participants in the massacre. The others, who might be considered peripheral figures, include: Brigadier General George H. Young Jr., Koster's assistant commander in the Americal Division; Colonel Robert B. Luper, an artillery commander; Colonel Nels A. Parson Jr., Americal chief of staff; Lieut. Colonels David C. Gavin and William D. Guinn, American advisers serving with the South Vietnamese; Major Charles C. Calhoun, executive and operations officer of the task force that had responsibility for the sweep through My Lai; Major Robert W. McKnight, operations officer at the brigade level; Major Frederic W. Watke, commander of a helicopter...