Word: herzliya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technical problem. Soon after Israel launched its invasion of Lebanon last month, Syrian troops barricaded the road leading to Beirut's satellite transmission station. For network news teams beaming footage to New York City, the nearest reliable "uplink" was in Israel, at the satellite station in Herzliya. Israel agreed to open those facilities-with strings. Censors in Tel Aviv claimed the right to review shots of shattered residential areas and of wounded and dead civilians, on the ground that such scenes constituted "propaganda" for Israel's "primary adversary," the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...circumvented the censors, Israel cracked down more sternly. Israeli officials refused transmission to an ABC interview with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat, in which he claimed that the U.S. would "pay" for the conflict by seeing its relations with Arabs "destroyed." Hours later, ABC beamed out the Arafat footage from Herzliya anyway, purportedly as the result of a misunderstanding, and broadcast it on June 21. In response, the Begin government angrily denied ABC the use of its satellite facility and only lifted the ban two days later after ABC filed a letter of "regret" over the incident. Despite that apology...