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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 20
General Calvin Waller may have been uncertain whether all
American troops will be ready when the Persian Gulf deadline
passes this week, but TIME's small journalistic army is fully
prepared. The deadline makes this a "weird" conflict, remarks
chief of correspondents John F. Stacks. "Other wars developed
by accretion or else suddenly, like Pearl Harbor. This long
period of getting ready is nerve-racking." But at least it
allowed Stacks time to deploy his forces.
From the Cairo bureau, Dean Fischer has been posted to the
Saudi Arabia theater. Also on hand last week were Pentagon
correspondent Bruce van Voorst, editor at large Strobe Talbott
and Lebanon stringer Lara Marlowe. Moving in shortly will be
Cairo-based William Dowell and Scott MacLeod, who was in Iraq
with Stacks as of last week. MacLeod, an expert on the
Palestinian issue, went north from Johannesburg to help out in
the Middle East last month.
Both Rome correspondents have moved out, bureau chief Robert
T. Zintl to Turkey and James Wilde, who has previously covered
wars in Vietnam and Africa, to Jordan. Vienna-based John
Borrell, who in the mid-1980s reported extensively on the
conflict in Lebanon, is in Syria, while stringer Aileen Keating
is on duty at the important listening post of Bahrain. The
four-member Jerusalem staff is on full alert. Washington's
David Aikman, who has been monitoring diplomatic angles in
several nations, will be holding the fort in Cairo. His
Washington colleague Dick Thompson and photographers Dennis
Brack and Kenneth Jarecke are relying on telephone beepers,
awaiting the any-moment summons to a C-141 military press plane
bound for a gulf war.
TIME's photography field team includes Rudi Frey and
Christopher Morris in Saudi Arabia, Barry Iverson in Amman, Tom
Hartwell standing by in Cairo and Francoise DeMulder in
Baghdad. Frey, a man of many skills, is doing double duty as
a liaison with the military command and coping with the
headaches of transmitting pictures. A high-tech air war could
jam normal telecommunications and force reporters to switch
from laptop computers to typewriters. Seven chemical-warfare
protective outfits, purchased in London, are available for those
who will be assigned to go into combat zones. "This is the
first time I have ever asked anybody to go and cover a war,"
says a sober Stacks, who feels "a responsibility for the
people." Nothing would please us more than to find that these
elaborate preparations are unnecessary.
-- Louis A. Weil III