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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...
...moved into the school building with a wave of Israeli paratroopers. Says Halevy, who was wounded in the October war: "I have seen many terrible scenes as a soldier and as a journalist. But I have never seen anything as bad as Ma'alot." Bureau Chief William F. Marmon Jr., a former TIME Viet Nam War correspondent, spoke with Israeli officials, who recounted the events leading to the Ma'alot tragedy and discussed its impact on the Kissinger mission. Correspondent Marlin Levin, who has reported on four Middle East wars since 1947, weighed the public reaction...
Political War. Perhaps Kissinger was optimistic for all the right reasons. Despite its intensity, the Mount Hermon fighting was clearly more political than military. Last week, touring the long ridge line that rings Mount Hermon, TIME Correspondent William Marmon talked to one Israeli officer who shared responsibility for the defense of the mountain. "This is a political war," he told Marmon. "The Syrians are trying to play the same game that the Egyptians played before there was a disengagement in Sinai. But we shall stay here as long as necessary." The Syrians hoped to convince Israel that they could fight...
...Suez-front commander who won a Knesset seat on the Likud list and will leave the army to take it, says bluntly: "We will not accept a war of attrition." In a talk last week with TIME Chief of Correspondents Murray J. Gart and Jerusalem Bureau Chief William Marmon, Sharon threatened: "If the Egyptians don't stop violating the ceasefire, the war will start again. And in that case we will force them back to the west side of the canal very quickly...
From William Marmon, with Israeli troops on the western bank of the Suez Canal...