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Despite the constant but relatively low-key fighting that marked the 1960s, Salem says his feeling of "violence coming home, coming close" began to grow in the early 1970s when the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), evicted from Jordan in 1971, began building a base in Lebanon. The Lebanese government at that time was "delicately balanced" to satisfy relations between the five major religions in the country--the two Moslem minorities, (Shiites and Sunnites), Christian Marinates, Christian Greek Orthodox, and Druses. The entrance of Palestinian forces "tipped the balance of the Lebanese political system," but, Salem adds, that was only...
...contains one unfortunate error. Blinken rightly criticizes the press for using casually figures released by an organization headed by Yasser Arafat's brother. The name' of the organization, however, is not the Lebanese Red Cross, as Hlinken writes, but the Palestinian Red Crescent, which--as an arm of the PLO--is not affiliated with the International Red Cross Society. Jerome S. Forlinsky...
...YEAR AGO last may five American correspondents in Lebanon were abducted by a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and held for 24 hours. According several accounts, the newsmen were stripped and lined up against a wall as if to be executed. Them they were released on the condition their employers not reveal the episode. Only an accusatory finger pointed by the Israeli Press Office eight months later forced the American media to disclose the affair...
...have felt some sympathy for the Palestinians. That was to be expected because when bombs dropped, they were just as lethal to journalists as they were to their intended targets. But the possibility that members of the press could have been intimidated to write stories favorable to the PLO is another matter altogether. Such knowledge is essential to a reader--sitting safely at home--in his or her evaluation of what should ideally be an objective news story...
Newspaper accounts of the war in Lebanon this summer were filled with distortions. From the start, the press published casualty figures released by the Lebanese Red Cross--without pointing out that the Red Cross director is PLO chairman Yasser Arafat's brother. In an interview recently granted to the Jerusalem Post, American military observer Col. Trevor N. Dupuy indicates numerous factual errors reported by journalists in Beirut. He notes, for example, a New York Times story on the August 12 attack on West Beirut quoting PLO communiqués saying that Israeli planes dropped 44,000 bombs. The article...