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...intense, hard-edged Heckler, 51, concentrates on a few relatively uncontroversial but still progressive issues, like benefits for Viet Nam veterans. While not a naturally effusive campaigner like Frank, she is scrupulously attentive to bread-and-butter constituent problems. Paunchy, glib and (until recently) chronically disheveled, Frank seems more like a back-room political operative than an up-front candidate. But he and his liberal orthodoxy are especially popular in Brookline and Newton, slightly tweedy and heavily Jewish suburbs that were grafted from his old district onto...
...frank. Is the U.S. really ready to fight a land war in Asia after Viet...
William Morgan Stewart, born March 18, 1937, in Dundee, Scotland, graduate of Towson (Md.) High School, Johns Hopkins University and University of Edinburgh (Scotland), former U.S. Foreign Service Officer (in Bombay, Washington and South Viet Nam), and TIME correspondent since 1971, is taking a vacation. Finally. After a week of temporary duty in Jerusalem, Stewart, the magazine's Middle East bureau chief, is planning two weeks in Greece and Scotland, says he, to "sleep late and have long naps." For the past 2½ years, Stewart has lived and worked in West Beirut, reporting on, among other things...
Since that first week in early June when the Israeli military machine smashed its way to the gates of Beirut, life in the city had been harrowing. "There were bad moments, worse than anything I can remember during Viet Nam," said Stewart, who was TIME'S acting Saigon bureau chief in 1972. "I felt like a hunted animal, as if the shells and bombs seemed to follow me across the city." On one occasion, a bomb hit his apartment; on another, explosions pulverized his neighborhood. Two weeks before the final ceasefire, an explosion ripped through the floor where...
...American ingenue in Tall Story and Sunday in New York. A few years later, her then husband Roger Vadim retooled her into a European sex symbol as Barbarella. By the early '70s she was a scrawny, scraggly Hanoi Jane, the ardent activist who visited the Viet Cong, turned up at Black Panther rallies, and cheered on the Indians who occupied Alcatraz, earning contumely for herself and an Oscar for her performance in Klute...