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...remarkable eyewitness account and exclusive photographs in this week's World story on the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel and the massacre that followed were the result of the almost routine serendipity that seems to be the hallmark of good journalists. As the bomb that was to kill Gemayel was edging toward detonation, TIME Correspondent David Halevy was at the reception desk of the Hotel Alexandre in East Beirut checking out. TIME Staff Photographer Rudi Frey was at the hotel bar having a beer. David Rubinger, another veteran TIME photographer, was upstairs packing. The three were...
After swiftly taking what street pictures he could before Gemayel's trigger-happy supporters arrived, Photographer Frey ducked into an adjacent building to get more pictures from a higher and safer vantage point. Suddenly shots were fired in his direction. Says he: "That was the signal to get my film to some safe place...
...back to New York City, they tossed their suitcases into a rented car and sped out of East Beirut. They were in Israel only long enough to get their first round of work safely en route to TIME in New York before they were back in Beirut to cover Gemayel's funeral in Bikfaya and rejoin Photographer Frey in covering Lebanon's new crisis...
First, an assassin's bomb killed Lebanon's President-elect Bashir Gemayel only days before he was to have taken office. Israeli tanks thereupon rolled into West Beirut, presumably to keep the fratricidal factions in the long-suffering nation from one another's throats. And then, with the Israelis supposedly in control, a ghastly massacre took place. A still undetermined number of Palestinian refugees, most of them unarmed civilians, including women and children, were found shot to death in two camps in Beirut at week's end. Survivors claimed that the Christian militia, long allied with...
...complications raised by Gemayel's murder, the Israeli occupation of West Beirut and the massacre, however, are nasty indeed. They strengthen doubts among the Arabs about the ability of the U.S. to get Israel to make any concession whatsoever, and thus redouble Arab hesitancy about bargaining. Says Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ah of Egypt, the only Arab state that has diplomatic relations with Israel: "You cannot start negotiations when the Israelis are occupying an Arab capital." Still, the swift, outraged worldwide reaction to the massacre might pressure Israel into pulling out of Beirut sooner than it had wished...