Word: prager
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Beirut-based Karsten Prager, whose beat normally includes much of the Arab world, moved to the Syrian side of the war to report from Damascus, while Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante took up temporary station in Beirut...
...resources. Israelis are already the most heavily taxed people in the world, and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir has estimated that the current fighting will cost them perhaps another $250 million a day. Surtaxes must therefore go up. An Arab observer expressed last week to TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager in Beirut what was undoubtedly on many minds, Israeli as well as Arab: "What if Israel wins the battle and bleeds herself dry in the process-won't she eventually lose...
More than that, Hussein told TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager in Am man last week, the reunion was pretty much on his own terms. Not only are the fedayeen still barred from Jordan unless they abide by the King's rules, but Hussein felt sufficiently confident of his government's stability to release nearly 1,000 political prisoners - most of them Palestinian guerrillas - in a gen eral amnesty...
...particularly worried by the fedayeen," Hussein told Prager dur ing an audience at Amman's Basman Palace, "but I think there is a certain nuisance value that will continue to ex ist, unfortunately. Still, I believe that somehow in the future, possibly as a result of their experiences, Arab states will realize that they cannot leave the matter of their relations as states in the hands of irresponsible elements...
...Karsten Prager...