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...were still in Beirut. The carefully crafted plan for their release had gone awry. Darkness fell in the war-torn city, and the hostages were once again split into groups and sent back to their beds in the secret hideaways of their Shi'ite Muslim guards from Lebanon's Amal militia. When they awoke on Sunday, they had no way of knowing how much longer their ordeal would last...
...Saturday morning. On Monday, while filming in the city's teeming Shi'ite slums, he was suddenly caught in a storm of bullets. Only by surrendering his tape was Glass permitted to drive away. Two days later, however, came the scoop of the week: after persistent requests from ABC, Amal Leader Nabih Berri arranged for Glass to interview the crew still aboard...
...place where journalists often are kidnaping targets. Reliable information is elusive and often impossible to confirm. Even the most enterprising correspondents last week had to depend for news on the cooperation of those holding the hostages. Yet in their eager pursuit of the story, reporters risked being exploited by Amal. What began as a frenzied hijacking threatened to become a prolonged publicity showcase controlled by terrorists...
...danger of unrestrained journalistic zeal was evident at the hostages' press conference. Photographers surged around the prisoners, shutters clicking madly, while other cameramen jumped up on the table for a better angle. Angered by the chaos, an Amal spokesman abruptly ended the proceedings, which only triggered more shouting and shoving. Militiamen pounced on photographers and reporters, smashing cameras and seizing tape recorders. Fifteen minutes later, after the journalists promised to maintain calm, the session was resumed. In another incident, a Lebanese Shi'ite driver working for Newsweek reached the plane by passing himself off as a relative of the hijackers...
...including TIME, last week withheld information voluntarily or at the request of Government agencies. According to an ABC insider, the network had planned to label its coverage "America Held Hostage," echoing the network's tag line for the Iranian crisis. But when staffers protested, the idea was dropped. Though Amal leaders have displayed the same eagerness to talk with reporters that Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr did five years ago, there is a crucial difference: Berri, unlike Banisadr, is also speaking with U.S. diplomats...