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Once the choice was made, preparations for the story began under conditions of secrecy. From Beirut, Bureau Chief Karsten Prager distilled 18 months of reporting on oil while Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn flew to Jeddah to sip Bedouin coffee in a rare audience with King Faisal. In New York, Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and Sarah Button gleaned information on oil and the Middle East. Sequestered in an out-of-the-way office, Senior Editor Marshall Loeb then wrote the cover story, which was edited by Assistant Managing Editor Edward L. Jamieson. Associate Editor Spencer Davidson sketched Faisal...
...industry and subsidize other Arab nations. But unless and until the industrial nations get together, much of the non-Communist world could not long function without Saudi Arabia's 8.5 million bbl. per day. As Saudi Arabia's Harvard-educated Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani told TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager: "How much can the consumers reduce consumption? By 10%? And how much can the producers reduce without financial pain? By at least 33%?minimally. The people who ask for a price reduction of $2 to $4 are simply not being realistic...
...cover since he came to the Peacock Throne in 1941. Using his overflowing oil revenues, the Shah now hopes to make Iran "the Japan of the Middle East" and a force in world politics. Filing the main reports for this week's cover story were Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Stewart assisted by TIME'S Tehran Stringer Parviz Raein. Prager's rounds included interviews with the Shah and Empress Farah in their Saadabad Palace on the outskirts of Tehran. Stewart mean while spent several days at industrial and agricultural projects and interviewing members...
...Shah not only decides Iran's foreign and domestic policies, but he generally enunciates them as well. During a recent 90-minute interview at Saadabad Palace with TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, the Shah candidly discussed a number of key issues, ranging from oil prices and Iran's ambitions in the Indian Ocean to the strength of the country's secret police, SAVAK, and his opinion of Western work ethics. Excerpts...
...Cover Subjects Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper. But interviews with leading political and diplomatic figures often pose unique problems; many demand written questions in advance as well as the right to edit their own statements. Even security can be an obstacle. After elaborate negotiations, Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager was chauffeured to his recent rendezvous with Arafat, who is head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, through the twisting streets of Lebanon's capital in a guerrilla staff car. Prager met Arafat in a modest flat in a nondescript apartment building guarded by fedayeen armed with Soviet...