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...argued that his country's aggressive attacks were necessary to reduce casualties among Israelis, Said Begin: "Given a choice between dead Jews and a good press, and living Jews and a bad press, I would prefer the latter." But worried Israeli politicians held investigations into charges that government spokesmen were responsible for the unfavorable coverage because of their mishandling of the press. The investigations were inconclusive, but the Foreign Ministry believes that the army's heavyhanded treatment of reporters in the first week of the war tended to make them more sympathetic to the P.L.O. viewpoint...
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...
...Congressman said he would urge the U.S. to open direct dealings with the P.L.O. But McCloskey's euphoria was soon punctured. Within hours the so-called Arafat document was denounced by Israel as a propaganda ploy, and explicitly disavowed as a recognition of Israel by official P.L.O. spokesmen in Beirut, New York and Paris. That blow came after a stinging cable from House Speaker Tip O'Neill instructing the congressional delegation, whose trip he had routinely authorized, to refrain from making statements in his name. It was only the beginning of the Americans' troubles. Representatives Nick Rahall...
...Lebanon. Reagan's decision had been kept secret by the Administration, but much to U.S. chagrin, it was made public early last week by the notoriously leaky Israeli government over the national radio network. Reagan confirmed the decision during his speech in Los Angeles, while White House spokesmen stressed that carrying out the proposal depended on the results of Habib's difficult and sensitive negotiations...
...wrong. The show's other anchor, Kathleen Sullivan, who was wooed, perhaps not coincidentally, from a highly visible role at Cable News Network, was appealingly energetic, but often seemed ill at ease. She mumbled, misread, and even looked abruptly away when she garbled words. One notable malapropism: "Police spokesmen are involving any comment." More seriously, the show hyped the as yet unsubstantiated charges of sexual misconduct between members of Congress and Capitol Hill pages, and used an artist's rendering of a compromising scene, also seen repeatedly on ABC's World News Tonight, that implied that...