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...close look at the man whom Berliners hail as a worthy successor to the late, great Mayor Ernst Reuter (whose bust appears behind Brandt in this week's cover picture), TIME called on John Mecklin, chief of the Bonn bureau, and Correspondent
With that background. Mecklin was well prepared to serve as the pivot man of the TIME task force that provided this week's coverage in depth of the crisis in the Middle East...
WITH news and history breaking out all over the Middle East, TIME'S chief correspondent in the area, John Mecklin, an old hand at censorship and canceled flights that leave correspondents stranded during crises, stuck close to his Beirut headquarters and the cable office. He was on hand to meet the U.S. Marines when they landed in Lebanon. Out of hjs background of 80,000 miles of travel over the past 2½ years, he was also able to contribute comprehensive and incisive commentary on all the week's events. Mecklin's current passport, two years...
...covering the Middle East's biggest stories, including six TIME covers, Mecklin has come to know well every Arab head of state except the Imam of Yemen and the Sheik of Kuwait. He was on close enough terms with Nasser to be chosen for the dictator's first interview, six hours long, after the Suez war. That friendship has since chilled. He was a good friend of the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq, who always greeted him with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME...
WHEN TIME'S Correspondent John Mecklin asked a Baghdad bookseller why he had no books about Iraqi Premier Nuri asSaid, he was told: "If somebody said he was good, nobody would buy the book. If a book said he was bad, the police would ban it. So nobody tries it." Later, over a card-table dinner of "roofed fish" (a Baghdad speciality) in Nuri's home, the old strongman told more about himself than the West has ever heard before. For the Arabian Nights' story of the Iraqi strongman, Nuri asSaid, a blue-eyed Arab, see FOREIGN...