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...next hour, Halevy, Frey and Rubinger were the only newsmen there. As the certainty grew that one of the bodies in the rubble was in fact that of the newly elected President, Halevy remembers thinking: "The dream of a strong Lebanese government is buried under those ruins...
...When newsmen tried to enter the Sabra camp late Friday afternoon, they were stopped at the checkpoint by Israeli soldiers, who told them that fighting was still going on inside the camp. Reported Suro: "We could hear the burst of automatic weapons fire and the explosion of grenades. It was clearly not a firefight because the volleys of gunfire were not being returned: the guns were being fired in only one direction." Israeli soldiers rested at the edge of the camp even as the firing continued. They did not appear concerned about snipers or any kind of attack from inside...
Gergen spends much time devising visual backdrops for Reagan appearances. Outlined against the U.S. Capitol dome, Reagan proclaims his support of a balanced-budget constitutional amendment. In St. Louis his backdrop is grinning black children. Last week Reagan tried waging diplomacy by camera. White House spokesmen pointedly referred newsmen to how unsmiling the President was in greeting Israel's Foreign Minister Shamir. If this was meant to signal a new kind of diplomatic rebuff, it didn't overwhelm the Israelis, who went on bombing Beirut...
...newsmen reacted differently from their colleagues, willingly debating the pros and cons of their profession. One was NBC anchor Roger Mudd, the other was Robert MacNeil...
...more than half an hour so that it could give advance notice to congressional leaders and to former Presidents. Reagan managed to call Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, but Gerald Ford was aboard an airplane and could not be reached. When Reagan strode into the White House press room, newsmen had been told only that he would make "an important statement" and had been given no hint of what it would be about...