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...last month, Syrian troops barricaded the road leading to Beirut's satellite transmission station. For network news teams beaming footage to New York City, the nearest reliable "uplink" was in Israel, at the satellite station in Herzliya. Israel agreed to open those facilities-with strings. Censors in Tel Aviv claimed the right to review shots of shattered residential areas and of wounded and dead civilians, on the ground that such scenes constituted "propaganda" for Israel's "primary adversary," the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...shots of an old woman and three girls but leaving in a wounded Palestinian guerrilla. Complains Mallory: "The Israelis have tried to dismiss the existence of a civilian population. Every time we tried to show it, they tried to hide it." Says Paul Miller, NBC Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv: "Their censorship was outrageous. They cut out anything that might look bad for them." After CBS footage of P.L.O. Leader George Habash was chopped, CBS Tel Aviv Bureau Chief Charles Wolfson protested to the city's chief censor. Recalls Wolfson: "He told me: 'You have two choices...
...decide what to say to him about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Clark and Weinberger thought that Reagan should at least raise the threat of sanctions if the fighting did not stop. Some Administration hard-liners were even discussing possible moves. They included withdrawing Ambassador Samuel Lewis from Tel Aviv, giving American support to a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel (the U.S. has vetoed such resolutions to date) and finally cutting off arms aid that Israel needs. The hard-liners were moved by shock at the civilian casualties caused by the Israeli invasion and also by fear that...
...Arab role in the crisis: The Israeli invasion has taken place at a time when the Arab world is suffering from acute internal divisions. It is U.S. policy, especially through Camp David, that has intensified these divisions and contradictions. Washington and Tel Aviv exploited the absence of Arab solidarity...
...material had been submitted to the military censors. When Silver said no, his line to England suddenly went dead. One TV correspondent told of the Israel defense forces flying correspondents' material from the Lebanon front back to Israel, then confiscating the film at the airport in Tel Aviv...