Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week's story, Beirut Bureau Chief William Stewart flew to Baghdad, while TIME correspondents in Paris, London, Washington and other capitals helped assess world reaction. To learn why and how Isreal struck, the Jerusalem bureau drew on an extensive network of scientific, military and diplomatic sources. Says Bureau Chief David Aikman: "There is something almost cosmic about Isreal's conflict with its neighbors. Where else in the world would the chief of the Air Force quote the Bible in answer to a reporter's question...
...unaccountably, the Christians and Muslims both began to shell the area. The carnage: 20 dead and 270 wounded. How have the 1 million Beirutis been coping with the relentless destruction of their once beautiful city and the periodic slaughter of their people? Reports TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart...
...shot on March 30. Sharpshooters were positioned on the top steps of the bleachers in Michie Stadium, constantly scanning the crowd. Cadets with seats near the podium were required to walk through metal detectors before entering the stadium. The President was whisked by helicopter between the academy and Stewart Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., where Air Force One had landed; he did not stop to answer reporters' questions, as he normally did before the assassination attempt...
...deck past the last of the arresting cables and caromed some 500 ft., its right wing lopping chunks off parked jets along the way. Finally it rammed broadside into a "six pack" of fueled F-14 Tomcat fighters. "There was just one big boom," recalled Naval Aviation Technician Dale Stewart, 19. "It all happened so fast. All you could see was flying pieces of aircraft." Said Petty Officer Richard Elkin: "There were screams of pain everywhere...
Reports TIME Beirut Bureau Chief William Stewart, who watched the air attack from the Beirut airport: "The planes, two at a time, appeared suddenly in a cloudless sky. Brilliant flashes of light followed them; it was unclear whether they were caused by Palestinian missiles or were emitted from the planes themselves to attract and deflect missiles...