 Hart began his career as a reporter in Central Africa, on the "Nyasaland Times", and served as a war correspondent in Vietnam.He tells of having been the first Western correspondent to reach the banks of the Suez Canal with the Israeli army in 1967.He also tells of having been friendly with both Golda Meir and Yasser Arafat at roughly the same time and having been on friendly terms with such leaders as Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, Jordan's King Hussein, and both Egyptian presidents Nasser and Sadat.