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...Israeli-Egyptian Sinai agreement has met with expected hostility from Palestinian organizations. Declaring an "emergency situation," P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat has scheduled a series of strategy meetings with commando leaders. In an interview last week with TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish, Arafat denounced the accord as "dangerous because it ignores the basic question of Palestine and the cause of the Palestinian people." He was careful, however, to avoid criticizing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...Hazelhurst, 39, Tokyo-based Asian correspondent for the London Times; Peter Gill, 31, the London Daily Telegraph's man in Tehran; and Loren Jenkins, 36, Newsweek's Hong Kong bureau chief, refused to pledge submission and were hustled out of New Delhi at dawn Tuesday on a Beirut-bound Pan Am flight. The New York Times, TIME, the British Broadcasting Corp. and CBS-TV also turned down the pledge. Said Richard Salant, president of CBS News: "If we sign, we are either lying or submitting to their rules for bad journalism." A few reporters from United Press International...
...concocted to evade the government's jerry-built censorship. For a month some overseas journalists in New Delhi had escaped the censor's leaden fist by telephoning or telexing their copy direct to their home offices, or by flying out of the country to file from Beirut or Bangkok and then flying back a few days later. The Indian government, while it barred distribution of some foreign publications like TIME and Newsweek, tolerated the practice...
Unexpected Help. Believed to be ultraleftist members of the Palestinian guerrilla movement, the kidnapers threatened that Morgan would be murdered unless the U.S. provided sizable food, clothing and construction aid for al Maslakh (Arabic for Slaughterhouse), a slum section of Beirut that was seriously damaged during the recent factional fighting. At week's end a private Lebanese committee began distributing free food in the slum. Two hours before a deadline expired, Morgan was released unharmed...
...unlucky colonel apparently was a man in the wrong place at the wrong time. A 23-year veteran of military service, he had a one-day transit stopover in Beirut while en route from a conference in Pakistan to Ankara, where he serves on the U.S.-Turkish joint military mission. Wearing civilian clothes, he was in a Beirut taxi when armed terrorists halted the car and seized him. Lebanese authorities searched for Morgan and his captors throughout the strife-torn country in vain...