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From its headquarters in Beirut, the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) described the latest Israeli move as the first step in an effort to purge the West Bank of all mayors who, like Tawil, have close ties to the P.L.O. Prime Minister Menachem Begin's ultimate aim, the Palestinians claim, is outright annexation of the territory, which Begin always refers to by its biblical name of Judea and Samaria...
Palestinian leaders in Beirut dismiss any notion that they would try to replace King Hussein, however much he has incurred their enmity. The P.L.O., however, does take the threat of an Israeli invasion seriously, and it has reinforced its strongholds in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese government, meanwhile, is also deeply worried over the threat of a new conflagration on its soil. Lebanon last week sought an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to ask for 1,000 more troops for UNIFIL, the 6,000-member U.N. force stationed in southern Lebanon to help prevent another Middle East...
...evidence, he cited ABC's coverage of the region since the murder of Sean Toolan, a part-time radio reporter for ABC in Beirut. He was killed shortly after ABC-TV aired a special report by Correspondent Geraldo Rivera that was sharply critical of Palestinian terrorism. Said Chafets: "ABC, from the time that [Toolan's death] happened, in my view, began a policy which I would describe as cowardly." The recent 20/20 segment "Under the Israeli Thumb" by Correspondent Tom Jarriel, Chafets said, was "one of the most malicious, distorted and one-sided programs about Israel shown...
Chafets also cited an incident last May involving two newsmen from the Times and one each from the Post, Associated Press and Newsweek. The five were having drinks at the Commodore Hotel in Beirut when they decided to try to follow up a report that Israeli commandos had landed near Damur, twelve miles south of the capital. They rushed off to cover the story, leaving behind their passports and press identification cards. At about 2 a.m., they were stopped by Palestinian militiamen and detained when they could not prove that they were journalists. At least two of the newsmen felt...
Sharon has been pressing for just such an attack for several weeks. In mid-January, he met with Bashir Gemayel, commander of Christian Phalange forces in Lebanon, aboard an Israeli gunboat off Jounieh, a port city north of Beirut. The main subject: coordination of efforts between Israelis and Phalangists, in the event of an invasion that would bring Israeli forces as far north as the edge of Beirut International Airport. Such a penetration could also bring the Israelis into direct contact with the forces of Syria, whom many Israelis regard as the ultimate enemy of the Jewish state. What...