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Saturday afternoon, in the midst of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Jerusalem Bureau Chief William Marmon looked out of the window of TIME Stringer Alex Efty's Nicosia home to see a Turkish pilot bailing out at 15,000 feet directly over the building. Greek soldiers in the street below nervously cocked their weapons, preparing to shoot the parachutist as he came down. Suddenly, a strong south wind blew the man out of range. "His fate," cabled Marmon to New York minutes later, "is unknown...
...Franke1, 44. As Sunday editor of the New York Times, he runs an empire within an empire. Frankel began his Times career as a stringer, joined the paper full-time after graduating from Columbia University in 1952. Born in Germany, Frankel fled the Nazis with his family in 1938; 18 years later he returned to Europe to cover the Hungarian revolt and serve as Moscow correspondent. In Washington, Frankel established himself as one of America's top diplomatic reporters, winning the influential job of Times bureau chief there in 1968. Frankel picked up a Pulitzer Prize...
...hero, a 35-year-old civilian technician named Stringer, is attached by the terms of a lucrative contract to a special Army unit. His task: to plant sensing devices near an enemy supply trail so that "smart" bombs can home in on military convoys. He knows how to survive in the bush and is not afraid of spiders or the Viet Cong. But his motivation is uncertain, and this earns him the contempt of his partner, a hard-case Regular Army major named Price...
Price senses that Stringer is a member of nothing. He has no use for military form; the possibilities of the civilian world seem to him narrowing spirals of delusion. Although he appears humane and sensitive, his compass swings powerfully toward chaos...
Despite danger and disease, Stringer carries on, planting sensors and calling in air strikes. Sick from rotten water, he hallucinates a slippery dialogue with an imaginary captor. The jungle becomes his world and his home. When Army helicopters come to rescue him, he shoots them down...