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...Israeli-Egyptian Sinai agreement has met with expected hostility from Palestinian organizations. Declaring an "emergency situation," P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat has scheduled a series of strategy meetings with commando leaders. In an interview last week with TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish, Arafat denounced the accord as "dangerous because it ignores the basic question of Palestine and the cause of the Palestinian people." He was careful, however, to avoid criticizing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
Among the newsmen who covered the reopening of the Suez Canal last week were TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who observed the shoreside ceremonies, and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who, as pool reporter for the English-speaking press, was aboard the October Six with Sadat. Their accounts of the celebration...
...working with the military-assistance mission in Iran. The Shah called the Tehran murders "disgusting " and blamed a group of pro-Communist terrorists, apparently the same clandestine organization that killed another American officer two years ago. In an interview with TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager at his spacious office in Niavaran Palace, the Shah discussed the incident and a wide range of other topics. His observations...
Beirut's street battles were the week's most spectacular event. Cabled TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager from Beirut: "The fighting brought into the open old fears of sectarian feuding in a country whose delicate political structure is a tapestry of extraordinary complexity, based on an almost even division of Christians and Moslems in a population of 3.1 million. An unwritten national covenant gives Christians a slight political edge, as if to compensate for their fears of being absorbed by the Moslem majority around them." Under this arrangement, the President is always a Maronite Christian, the Premier a Sunni...
Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff pressed Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin for his interpretation of the stalled Middle East negotiations, while Correspondents Wilton Wynn in Cairo and Karsten Prager in Beirut reported Arab views and reaction to Faisal's death. From Washington, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott contributed to an analysis of how setbacks in Indochina and the Middle East may affect the future of the Secretary of State. The special section is illustrated by four pages of color photographs, including a remarkable picture of Faisal's simple sand-and-stone grave by TIME...