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TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart has been in the forefront of Lebanon's firing lines for more than two years. Those lines have now touched his life with uncomfortable intimacy. While reporting to magazine headquarters in New York City from the Commodore Hotel in West Beirut, Stewart got word that his apartment house had been shelled. He rushed home, and amid the piles of plaster and shredded furniture found his prized statue of a 17th century Buddha presiding undamaged over the wreckage. Only one hour before, Stewart had been in the apartment writing his story...
Only hours after the latest cease-fire went into effect, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., gave an exclusive interview to TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart. The session took place in an underground P.L.O. bunker while armed commandos sat in every doorway. Instead of the usual Arab headdress, Arafat was wearing a stiff fatigue cap and an olive-drab uniform. Excerpts from the interview...
...other such incidents have been reported in the racially and ethnically mixed community in recent years, said Lt. Larry Stewart of the police department in Wayne County's Canton Town...
With much of Beirut a combat zone last week, there was scarcely a place in the city that did not seem to be smack in the center of the action. "People broke into tears out of sheer nervous exhaustion," reported Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart after one particularly harrowing day of bombardment. So widespread was the destruction in mostly Muslim West Beirut, where TIME'S offices are situated, that Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro was dispatched across the Green Line, which divides the city, so that he could begin operating from the predominantly Christian east side. "In effect...
...novel experience for the bureau was reporting on a new occupying force-the Israelis, who had troops spotted all over the area. "When I was transferred here nearly seven months ago," says Suro, "I hardly expected to cover the activities of the Israeli army." Even more startling, Stewart found the Israelis covering his activities. On his way to suburban Baabda, Stewart came upon an Israeli tank with an Israeli TV camera crew in tow. "They asked to interview me, and I agreed," says Stewart. "So I gave my impression of the siege for Israeli TV only hours after the bombardment...