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...Beirut, spokesmen for the Palestine Liberation Organization disclaimed responsibility for the Paris incident. The Lebanese border fighting was a different matter. Guerrillas, reportedly including members of the Syria-based Saiqa and Palestine Liberation Army units, were in the Arqub looking for chinks in the Israeli border. That border, as a result of earlier Palestinian attacks on civilian settlements, has now been almost hermetically sealed. The frontier, reported TIME'S Daniel Drooz after a trip there last week, is rigged with devices to forestall infiltration. There are observation posts, defoliated zones, minefields and electronic detectors, searchlights and magnesium flares...
...music (example: shots of gold bars set to the strains of Donovan's Mellow Yellow). The only relief is the show's solidly professional, twice-hourly newscast anchored by Peter Jennings, 36, former ABC network-news anchor man and most recently chief of ABC's Beirut bureau...
Once the choice was made, preparations for the story began under conditions of secrecy. From Beirut, Bureau Chief Karsten Prager distilled 18 months of reporting on oil while Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn flew to Jeddah to sip Bedouin coffee in a rare audience with King Faisal. In New York, Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and Sarah Button gleaned information on oil and the Middle East. Sequestered in an out-of-the-way office, Senior Editor Marshall Loeb then wrote the cover story, which was edited by Assistant Managing Editor Edward L. Jamieson. Associate Editor Spencer Davidson sketched Faisal...
Israel in turn wasted no time in retaliating. The next afternoon four Israeli air force Phantoms strafed and bombed three P.L.O. camps on the outskirts of Beirut. One person was killed and ten injured; six of the casualties were civilians...
After the Beirut bombing, Yasser Abed Rabbo, a pro-Arafat P.L.O. leader, declared: "We shall teach the enemy that its crimes will not go unpunished." To back these tough words, the guerrillas rocketed two towns in Israel Thursday night. Although no casualties were reported, Israel retaliated once again and bombarded the Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh. The Israelis also intercepted a band of Fatah guerillas soon after it had infiltrated from Lebanon. Four Arab terrorists and one Israeli policeman were killed in the gun battle...