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...this week's World section story on Syria and its pivotal position in the Middle East peace equation, TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William Marmon were granted a rare interview with Syria's President Hafez Assad. Prager also talked to two of Assad's closest advisers: Major General Naji Jamil, head of the Syrian air force, and Major General Mustapha Tlas, the Defense Minister. Following an old Syrian gift-giving custom, Jamil presented Prager with a small air-force pin, smilingly suggesting that it might make it easier for Prager to be a military correspondent in Syria...
TIME'S Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Marmon, both veterans of battlefront coverage in Viet Nam, had a ringside seat in TIME'S office in the seafront hotel district. They too had to abandon the office to the street fighters for almost a week. Prager evacuated his wife and four children to safety in Athens, Marmon moved his family to London. Returning to the office last week, they found that it had taken about 30 hits, mainly from .50-cal. armor-piercing machine-gun bullets. The desks were covered with shards of glass and plaster...
...direction of security affairs-he holds the Defense portfolio in addition to being Premier-and worked round the clock without the help of aides, pleading with leaders of the warring factions to stop the shooting. Shortly after the announcement of the ceasefire, TIME'S Beirut bureau chief Karsten Prager interviewed the weary but smiling Premier in his Serail office. Excerpts from the conversation...
...This is a march of 350,000 people, but it is really ideas that are marching," Morocco's King Hassan II told TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager last week in his ocher palace in Marrakech. One of the ideas on the march might well be the old notion that the shortest route to enhanced power is through a neighboring country's land. In his determination to annex the phosphate-rich Spanish colony, King Hassan has ignored an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that denied Morocco's claim of outright sovereignty over the Sahara. Spain, after...
TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, who has watched the violence unfold since last spring, cabled this report on the new fighting in Beirut...