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...southern Lebanon in retaliation for a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem that killed two Israelis and wounded 42 others. The Israeli high command denied that it had mounted any such attack. Despite the forced resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, the Israelis fear that Washington is secretly planning to establish informal relations with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (see following story). The U.S.-Israeli tensions exploded at a dinner party given by Israeli Ambassador Ephriam Evron for Defense Minister Ezer Weizman two days before the White House anniversary festivities. Harold Saunders, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs...
...years since, Arledge and Salant have come to exemplify the two poles of what network news programs want to do most: excite or inform. ABC's World News To night has got consistently sharper. Arledge demands and gets inventive technology. ABC, once el cheapo of the networks (it used to be said that ABC was the last to arrive at the scene and the first to leave), now spends good money to get good people. Arledge hired Richard Wald (once head of NBC News) to run his news operation, a job that Wald defines as "calming the process down...
Other foreign journalists were subsequently called in to the Ministry of National Guidance and told that they must inform the ministry before leaving the capital and must check in with local officials when traveling. It was the first time the government had acted to restrict foreign reporters. At the same time, new legislation is being drawn up to tighten controls on the Iranian press. Among other things, the law would forbid "close associates of the Pahlavi regime" from owning or editing newspapers in Iran. It would also make it a crime to "insult" religious leaders or top government officials...
Both couples were approached by third parties and asked to assemble some friends for a talk on national issues. They were given the impression that their guest would be Pollster Caddell. Caddell did call on the Fishers to inform them that the President himself would be there in an hour; he handed Bette Fisher $100 to buy refreshments. She rushed to a delicatessen about ten miles away and bought mounds of cold cuts and cole slaw, but Carter and Rosalynn, who accompanied him on both trips, declined to eat anything; they settled for lemonade. Ginny Porterfield had prepared coffee...
...belief that U.S. involvement could be concealed, Kennedy kept telling the CIA to "reduce the noise level" of the planned air strikes, and he kept scaling down the air cover. Not even highly skeptical military chiefs, secretly relieved to let the CIA run the project, had the nerve to inform Kennedy that the operation had grown too large to hide its origins, yet remained too limited to succeed. Looking back, one CIA official told Wyden, somebody "should have said, 'Mr. President, this is going to create one hell of a lot of noise...