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While Prager changes pace, the Beirut beat is being filled by Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who spent four years as an Associated Press correspondent in Beirut before joining TIME and knows the city intimately. With TIME'S Dean Brelis of Athens, Wynn had lately been a more and more frequent visitor to Lebanon, as the conflict demanded a greater share of the world's attention and, naturally, of TIME'S efforts. In this instance, the homecoming was far from joyful...
...hospitals filled with the victims of continuing sporadic fighting between right and left. If the end was not in sight, Assad's pressure gamble appeared to be making slow headway. "Middle East crises have a habit of zigging and zagging unexpectedly," cabled TIME Middle East Correspondent Wilton Wynn from Damascus, "but for the moment Assad seems to be ahead of the game...
Both TIME'S Middle East Correspondent Wilton Wynn and Athens Reporter Dean Brelis were with the Syrian forces as they drove toward Beirut last week. Excerpts from their eyewitness accounts...
...town of Sofar, 45 minutes' driving time from Beirut in the cool Lebanon mountains, has long been a favorite summer resort, both for wealthy Lebanese and Arabs from neighboring lands. It was there last week that the advancing Syrians met their first real resistance. On Tuesday, reports Wynn, the town was battle-scarred. Along the Beirut-Damascus highway, corrugated shutters of shop after shop were curled up from the shelling. Many of the cypress trees that once sheltered vacationing strollers had been smashed to splinters. Testimony to the Palestinian resistance was provided by three burned-out tanks that...
...fact is once again in a no-war, no-peace stalemate and is likely to remain so for some time. That situation could be particularly dangerous for the U.S., with its enlarged commitments and interests in the area. So concluded TIME'S Middle East bureau chiefs-Wilton Wynn of Cairo, Karsten Prager of Beirut and Donald Neff of Jerusalem-after comparing notes and impressions on the neutral ground of Athens. Their collective estimate of the situation...