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...report on the many complexities of the force that is Buddhism in the world of 1964, we called on twelve correspondents and stringers spread throughout the lands where Buddha is a pervasive figure. The key correspondent was Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter, who ranged over most of the Buddhist-influenced territory and who, not so incidentally, is finishing a book on Buddhism and politics in Southeast Asia. Absorbing all the reporting along with the rich store of existing Buddhist literature caused Writer Jason McManus to spend, appropriately enough, even more time than most cover stories require in sheer contemplation...
MOST of TIME'S reporting is done by its 90 staff correspondents in 30 bureaus around the world-such as Chicago Bureau Chief Murray Gart, who did the major digging for this week's cover story, and Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter, who covered the International Monetary Fund meeting in Tokyo for WORLD BUSINESS. But an important part of our coverage is supplied by more than 300 part-time correspondents -known in the office vocabulary as "stringers"-who report to us from near (Philadelphia) and far (Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia...
...vietnamese pledged to respect Cambodian borders, Schecter said, the Cambodians would interpret this as a sign of American good faith. Reports have linked Americans to many of the incidents around the Cambodian border...
...must also interpret Prince Sihanouk's speech in terms of Cambodian history," Schecter added. In the past, he said, the Vietnamese have been traditional enemies of the Cambodians: Sihanouk "doesn't want North Vietnam to dominate the Indo-Chinese peninsula." In fact, Schecter said, Cambodia's relations with China were always more comfortable than its contacts with its eastern neighbors...
...Schecter did not feel that the Cambodian stance was permanent. "Prince Sihanouk is the kind of man who can be appealed to," he said. "This appears to be a tactical bargaining situation, and is not irrevocable...