Word: marline
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporting this week's cover story, TIME'S correspondents drew on long experience in the Middle East. Marlin Levin, who has been TIME'S man in Jerusalem for eleven years, toured the frontiers to speak with Israeli border troops. Along with Rome Correspondent John Shaw, who was making his 20th visit to Israel in the past two years, Levin talked with nine of the 13 generals on the Israeli general staff. On the other side of the Arab-Israeli lines, Beirut Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was interviewing officials in Egypt, began his week by breakfasting...
After a dry-eyed departure from the Knesset, Ben-Gurion returned to the cool of his Tel Aviv home to reminisce with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin about his long career. Ben-Gurion professed himself generally satisfied with his life. But the old man, who will spend most of his time on his Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev, confided that he had found work on the land more fulfilling than statecraft. Among his reflections...
...meetings with Sisco, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban reiterated his government's feeling that it is time for the Arabs to make a gesture toward peace. In a similar vein, Eban told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin shortly before Sisco's visit: "We can't go on playing chess by making all the moves. We have made all the moves...
...than the others to make any progress: Cairo is expected to lecture him on U.S. culpability for furnishing Israel with Phantoms. When Sisco reaches Israel this week, the chief topic will be the increasing Russian presence in the Middle East, particularly Egypt. "The Soviet Union," Eban told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin last week, "has not had to use any armed force, has not had to conquer any territories, has not established a Communist regime, and yet has developed a deep penetration of the eastern Mediterranean." Plainly, Sisco is unlikely to hear any fresh thoughts about a peaceful settlement from either...
...Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, the most powerful man in Israel's military establishment is Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, 45. Chief of staff of the armed forces, Bar-Lev is an armor expert who has been called "Israel's General Patton." In an interview with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin last week, Bar-Lev discussed Israel's strategy and the war with the Arabs. Excerpts...