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Most news organizations withdrew their personnel from Beirut in March, after Associated Press Correspondent Terry Anderson was kidnaped. He is still missing. Last week, however, more than 100 Western correspondents poured into the Lebanese capital. The U.S. networks faced a special problem: because Beirut's satellite ground station was destroyed long ago, no live pictures could be transmitted. Instead, film had to be driven nearly 100 miles to Damascus on a road studded with checkpoints set up by warring militias. Drivers were shot at; tape was seized. CBS got its footage there only by sending several messengers, each carrying...
...forget the children whom the Ayatollah Khomeint has sent to die in the battlefields at the hands of the Iraquies? Since we withdrew our support of the former Shah, 500,000 Iranians have perished in a fanactical religious war. We have no part in that war. The hostages were not taken in Iran while the Shah ruled the country; half a million of the Shah's people did not die in one of the least-understood, most bloody wars in modern history. The Moslems there are solely accountable for their own destitution...
Domestically, Papandreou has made clear that he is intent on increasing his ; personal power. Last March he shocked many of his countrymen when he abruptly withdrew his backing for a second term for Constantine Caramanlis, then the country's President. A conservative, pro-Western politician revered by most Greeks, Caramanlis had been a moderating influence on Papandreou. The Prime Minister replaced him with his own candidate, Leftist Christos Sartzetakis, and in coming weeks Parliament is expected to pass a constitutional amendment severely restricting the powers of the presidency. The presidential office's loss of power will be Papandreou's gain...
...embryo, is a character in a recent Doonesbury comic series. The sequence, entitled Silent Scream II: The Prequel, pokes fun at the recent antiabortion documentary Silent Scream. But readers of the 835 newspapers in which Garry Trudeau's comic strip appears will never meet little Timmy. Last week Trudeau withdrew the six strips after discussions with his distributor, Universal Press Syndicate. "We thought the sequence was done well," said Lee Salem, editorial director of Universal. "But we finally decided that the whole question of abortion was so sensitive that it would cause too many problems for editors...
...Tammuz plant. That same year, while negotiating an upgraded agreement with Pakistan over safeguards at its Canadian-built reactor, the agency, without alleging any wrongdoing, said that it was unable to certify the facility. About two years later, after a new safeguards understanding was reached, the I.A.E.A. withdrew the advisory...