Word: karsten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under enemy fire-as ours were last week in the process of reporting for this issue's stories on the war. Bureau Chief William Rademaekers was based in combustible Saigon, as were Correspondents Don Sider, Peter Vanderwicken and John Cantwell. After covering the bitter fighting in Hué, Karsten Prager flew out to Danang to send his report...
...South Vietnamese. Our Saigon bureau chief is Simmons Fentress, formerly of the Washington bureau, and his two top resident correspondents are Donald Neff and William McWhirter. Constantly shuttling in and out of South Viet Nam from Hong Kong are Frank McCulloch, our senior correspondent in Asia, and Reporters Karsten Prager and Arthur Zich...
...message: the press was invited to Tinh Hoi at once for an announcement. Grabbing cameras and note pads, some 35 newsmen set out for the pagoda, passing first through government lines, then the firing pits of the Tinh Hoi compound filled with rebel soldiers. Among them were TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William McWhirter...
Meanwhile, Correspondent Arthur Zich, who had witnessed combat for more than a week with the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division, was relieved by Karsten Prager, who flew in from Hong Kong. Also on hand were TIME'S Pentagon correspondent. John Mulliken, and Stringer Zalin Grant. In the midst of the hectic week, McCulloch learned that his seven-year-old son David had undergone a successful emergency appendectomy in Hong Kong. "The jolt," said McCulloch later, "was at least partially absorbed by fatigue and activity...
...report the story, a TIME team of six correspondents-headed by Frank McCulloch and including Jess Cook, Karsten Prager, John Shaw James Wilde and Arthur Zich-covered all key action areas in two often sleepless weeks. Their dispatches filed around the clock for nine days over our new direct teletype channel from Saigon to New York, came to more than 50,000 words, from which Writer Jason McManus and Senior Editor Ed Hughes fashioned their account. A graphic part of the story is Cartographer Robert Chapin's map showing (within the limits of security) scale diagrams of the bristling...