Word: slater
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Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy was in Washington D.C., while TIME Photographer David Rubinger was on assignment in Spain. But both hurried back to Israel to join TIME'S Robert Slater, who was covering the political action in Jerusalem. Within hours they were in the battle zone. Rubinger photographed Halevy interviewing Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon at a forward military command post. One reporter found himself in the right place, right from the start. TIME'S Leroy Aarons had been dispatched protectively by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman to Metulla, Israel's northernmost town. On Sunday morning...
...seven entrances to the Old City. As word of the shooting spread, hundreds of Arabs gathered in angry clusters at the courtyard of the Dome of the Rock. At one point, 100 Arab youths, approaching a group of soldiers, chanted Barra, barra! (Out, out!). Reports TIME's Robert Slater: "Suddenly stones were being hurled at the soldiers. One of them fired a tear-gas canister at the crowd, which then fled toward the Dome of the Rock. Meanwhile, soldiers were moving toward the protesters in a pincer movement. I found myself caught between the soldiers and the protesters, protected...
...Greer, Wills Road, Frank Ramsey and Slater Martin were elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame...
...PARTY: Slater International Halloween Party; Alumnae Hall; Saturday...
Assisting Aikman was TIME'S Robert Slater, who interviewed former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Slater found that the fortunes of Israeli leaders are as unpredictable as the country. Says he: "Israeli politics is like the proverbial seesaw: it goes up one month and descends the next." Correspondent Marlin Levin, who has covered Israel off and on since 1948, spoke with a cross section of citizens - from mothers to officeworkers to university professors - to assess the national mood. "When I first came here as a correspondent for the United Press, life went on under...