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...entirely. As Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who made that statement on ABC's Nightline last week, was well aware, the TWA hostage crisis was an Israeli problem as well. As captor of the 776 mostly Shi'ite Lebanese detainees whose release was demanded by the hijackers of TWA Flight 847, Israel seemed to hold the key to freedom for the 40 captured Americans in Beirut. If Jerusalem refused to assist its most powerful ally, it ran the risk of alienating U.S. public opinion. Yet by cooperating in a trade, Israel would violate its longstanding rule against dealing with terrorists...
...candidate only for re-election as Governor next year. * But he has more than welcomed fresh attention as point man in the gathering campaign against the Administration's tax-reform plan. In that role, Cuomo had been popping up all over the place last month -- on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, on PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, at Harvard's Class Day, at the New York University commencement, before the congressional Joint Economic Committee. Still, his crusade seemed to be struggling in obscurity until he was hit with the Buchanan bombardment. The combative White House communications director responded...
Within hours after the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, ABC Correspondent Charles Glass received an urgent call from his network: Would he leave London immediately for Beirut? Glass, who was stationed in Beirut last year, quickly boarded a chartered jet and arrived there Saturday morning. On Monday, while filming in the city's teeming Shi'ite slums, he was suddenly caught in a storm of bullets. Only by surrendering his tape was Glass permitted to drive away. Two days later, however, came the scoop of the week: after persistent requests from ABC, Amal Leader Nabih Berri arranged for Glass...
...lack of live pictures only heightened the competition among the networks back home. CBS's Dan Rather, ABC's Peter Jennings and NBC's Roger Mudd put in 18-hour days manning not only the evening news shows but dozens of special bulletins during the week. (Tom Brokaw, NBC's regular anchor, was on vacation in Africa.) The story seemed tailor-made for Jennings, whose insightful commentary capitalized on his stint as ABC's chief Middle East correspondent from 1969 to 1975. Jennings' linguistic skills also came in handy. When a French-speaking operator attempted...
...exhaustive coverage raised broader questions about the appropriate role of journalists in such a crisis. Pentagon Spokesman Michael Burch charged that news organizations were abetting the terrorists by reporting U.S. military movements, including the deployment of the Delta Force antiterrorist unit. Burch was especially angry at NBC and ABC, which reported within hours after the hijacking that Delta Force had departed the U.S.; NBC added that it was headed for the Mediterranean. "It may have been one of the reasons for the erratic movements of the TWA hijackers (between Beirut and Algiers)," said Burch. CBS, A.P. and U.P.I. refrained from...