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Reporting from the U.N. for this week's cover story on U.S.-Israeli relations was a new experience for TIME Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who normally operates out of Cairo. His past assignments have included interviewing the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia for TIME'S 1975 Man of the Year cover, and six months later joining Egyptian President Anwar Sadat aboard the first ship to pass through the reopened Suez Canal...
DIED. Major General Wilton B. Persons, 81, amiable chief assistant to President Eisenhower (1958-61); in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. During World War II Persons was the Army's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill-a job he performed so well that Chief of Staff General George Marshall refused General Eisenhower's request for Persons' services in North Africa. Although Persons retired from the Army in 1949, Eisenhower persuaded him to return to active duty in 1951 to act as his go-between in Paris with foreign diplomats. He later served as Eisenhower's campaign adviser...
...strikes at airbases and radar installations. The Egyptians hit Libyan airfields at Al Adem, near Tobruk, Al Kufra and Umm Alayan, as well as a training camp for African "volunteers" near Al Jaghbub, which was attacked by helicopter-borne commandos. According to Egyptian intelligence, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, Gaddafi-in cooperation with Ethiopia and with Soviet support -planned to launch attacks on moderate governments all across northeast Africa...
...peace in the Middle East, Carter has avoided so far the ominous possibility of another war, but he has also raised expectations, particularly on the Arab side, dangerously high. Meeting in Athens to compare notes on neutral ground, TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn agreed that Washington's strategy carries great risks in case of failure...
...billion bbl.) indicate. Last year Saudi Arabia passed the U.S. to become the world's second largest oil producer, and this year it may overtake the Soviet Union to become No. 1. Even so, as the country's suave Oil Minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, "In the past year we discovered more oil than we produced. In the future, we will double our reserves." At present the country is producing about 9 million bbl. a day, but Frank Jungers, chairman of Aramco, the once American-owned consortium, says: "We're headed...