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...Washington D.C., while TIME Photographer David Rubinger was on assignment in Spain. But both hurried back to Israel to join TIME'S Robert Slater, who was covering the political action in Jerusalem. Within hours they were in the battle zone. Rubinger photographed Halevy interviewing Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon at a forward military command post. One reporter found himself in the right place, right from the start. TIME'S Leroy Aarons had been dispatched protectively by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman to Metulla, Israel's northernmost town. On Sunday morning, one of the three main waves...
...forward to the day with a kind of grim relish, and the defenders with a growing sense of defiance. Israel had actually massed its invasion forces four times near its northern border with Lebanon, then each time aborted a strike. But when the Israeli Cabinet finally gave Defense Minister Ariel Sharon the go-ahead for the attack at 11 a.m. on a sunny Sunday morning in Galilee, the impact was stunning, and the portents were both uncertain and ominous...
...stamp of one man. He had been spoiling for the fight against the Palestine Liberation Organization since he became Defense Minister last August. He had intensively lobbied Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Cabinet to approve it. He aggressively directed every logistical detail of it. And, in the end, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 54, will reap the rewards, or the blame, for the success or failure of the enterprise. The stakes were high: Sharon hopes to become Prime Minister of Israel one day. But brinkmanship has always been his game. As one veteran Israeli politician observed last week, "He may just...
...Thursday night, presumably after meeting with Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and other key Cabinet members, Begin called Haig in Bonn to assure him that the Cabinet would approve a unilateral decision the next morning. It did, and the cease-fire took effect at noon on Friday. But Israeli officials made it clear that it applied only to the Syrians, who also agreed to halt their fighting. The Israelis said they would continue cleanup operations against the P.L.O. in Lebanon. Only on Saturday did Jerusalem announce that it would observe a similar cease-fire toward the Palestinians...
...York Times Bureau Chief David Shipler had a different complaint: military censorship. "It's pretty frustrating," he said. "We can go in and ask the spokesman what's going on, but we won't get very much." At the outset of the campaign, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon placed a blanket over news from the front, censoring film and dispatches and issuing only sparse communiqués. Israeli correspondents called it a "fogout" or "grayout," but at times it seemed more like a blackout. In past Middle East wars, Israeli editors were given deep background briefings. "This...