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...this story go far beyond immediate personal considerations." Grant's experience abroad has helped him put into perspective both the economic and diplomatic aspects of this week's story, which was reported by TIME correspondents in more than ten countries. In Saudi Arabia, Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager spoke with Oil Minister Yamani and other high government officials, and observed the Saudi Arabian land and lifestyle. "From 30,000 feet above," Prager says, "it seems somehow as if God must have been looking away when the land was created. But somewhere along the line He made...
Beirut-based Karsten Prager, whose beat normally includes much of the Arab world, moved to the Syrian side of the war to report from Damascus, while Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante took up temporary station in Beirut...
...From Karsten Prager in Damascus...
None of the combatant countries were actively hostile to newsmen. Even Syria, which has no diplomatic relations with the U.S., allowed in a few American journalists, including TIME'S Karsten Prager, the New York Times 's Juan de Onis, CBS's Dean Brelis and ABC'S Peter Jennings. Others were arbitrarily barred. Egypt and Israel both established elaborate press headquarters...
...manpower or the resources. Israelis are already the most heavily taxed people in the world, and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir has estimated that the current fighting will cost them perhaps another $250 million a day. Surtaxes must therefore go up. An Arab observer expressed last week to TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager in Beirut what was undoubtedly on many minds, Israeli as well as Arab: "What if Israel wins the battle and bleeds herself dry in the process-won't she eventually lose...