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Speaking on national television shortly after the last guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization left Beirut, the President looked far beyond Lebanon to call for "a fresh start" on ministering to the most serious of all the Middle East's festering sores: the status of the Palestinian people, especially the 1.3 million living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Reagan dropped the former U.S. role of anxious and often baffled mediator to outline an American plan for progress toward a settlement, setting out some firm U.S. guidelines while leaving the Arabs and Israelis plenty of room...
...President began by noting that "today has been a day that should make us proud." It marked the successful completion, ahead of schedule and without significant incident, of the U.S.-mediated P.L.O. evacuation from Beirut, and meant that "we can now help the Lebanese to rebuild their war-torn country." But, he said, putting Lebanon back together should be only a start. "We must also move to resolve the root causes of conflict between Arabs and Israelis." He identified the most troublesome root as being the "homelessness of the Palestinian people," coupled with Israeli fear that fulfilling their demands...
...today," declared Lebanon's Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan, "there is no East Beirut and no West Beirut." Of course there were still two Beiruts: one Christian, one Muslim; the first largely spared the summer's fighting, the other pocked with rubble. But last week, as the twelve-day evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organization from West Beirut was completed with surprising ease 48 hours ahead of schedule, there were signs that life was beginning to return at last to the capital city...
...blare of auto horns replaced the bark of gunfire. Lebanese police, backed by soldiers, took over the streets of West Beirut, while the Lebanese army returned to barracks that it had not occupied for five years. As soldiers under the protection of French Foreign Legionnaires cleared away earthen barricades, the Sodeco crossing point between East and West Beirut was opened for the first time since 1978. It was quickly closed, however, when sniper fire from members of a small militia group, Partisans of the Revolution, caused a halt in traffic. But an hour later the leader of the group, Moustafa...
This may be true of car-chase dramas and comedies with laugh tracks, but network news coverage isn't shoddy. CBS, ABC and NBC each spend about a million dollars a week on their nightly news. Big budgets made possible the satellite reporting from West Beirut; large American audiences agonizing over what they saw (including one viewer in the White House) hastened the ceasefire. But if network news is indispensable, it is also inadequate. Its fatal flaw is fear of the bored viewer switching channels. Those who get their news mostly from TV, as most Americans...