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----- Original Message ----- From: "Nightline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nightline Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:41 PM Subject: NIGHTLINE: Time of War > TONIGHT'S SUBJECT: We're almost at the point of giving up on trying to > keep the incidents of violence in the Middle East separate. The violence > is almost constant. At the same time, there continues to be a series of > meetings, joint press conferences, talk about some sort of peace process > that seems totally divorced from the war on the ground. Is there any > reason to be hopeful? > > ---- > > We seem to be bouncing back and forth between two stories, both centered > on violence. Last night we reported on the battle going on in Eastern > Afghanistan. It is still going on today, although the level of combat > seems to have lessened, at least for the time being. It's hard to tell as > the fighting is going on in a mountainous area that is inaccessible to the > press. However, the military has taken some journalists working as a pool > into the area. We don't know what they have been able to cover, but if and > when their material does make it out, we will bring it to you. We just > have no idea when, or how, that will happen. > > At the same time, anyone who doesn't think that what is going on in Israel > and the West Bank and Gaza isn't a war, I don't know what you call it. Up > 'til now, we have been able to track each incident separately. There was > some spacing, and a macabre sort of rhythm to the violence. Now it just > seems constant. Suicide bombings, shooting, combat, air strikes, there > doesn't appear to be any let-up. > > At the same time, there is a sort of diplomatic dance going on in > Washington and other capitals around the world. Egyptian President Hosni > Mubarak is in town to meet with President Bush about the proposal put > forward by the Saudis. That proposal would call for normalization of > relations between Israel and the Arab countries in exchange for a pullback > by Israel to the pre-1967 borders. It's an idea that seems to be gaining a > fair amount of attention. But it also appears clear that in some way, > events on the ground are far outpacing the snails pace of diplomacy. So > tonight we'll have a report on the fighting in Israel and the occupied > territories from Gillian Findlay, and John Donvan will report on what we > normally call the "peace process," although that title may be overly > generous. Chris Bury will anchor and we expect to be joined by one of the > Saudi officials responsible for drawing up their proposal. > > On the issue of Nightline itself, Ted has written an op-ed piece that ran > this morning in the New York Times, and he lays out his thoughts on what > is going on. Rather than making this email a whole lot longer than it > already is, we're going to send it out as a separate email to you all. > Thanks again for all of the support. All of us here at Nightline really > appreciate the emails and the kind words. > > Tuesday, March 5, 2002 > > Leroy Sievers and the Nightline Staff > Nightline Offices > Washington, D.C. > > ----------- > If you have questions or comments regarding this message or a recent > "Nightline" broadcast, please do not hit reply; simply click on this link > to send your message directly to the "Nightline" staff: > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/Nightline/Nightline_email_form.html > > Or log on to the new "Nightline" Message Board: > http://boards.go.com/cgi/abcnews/request.dll?LIST&room=nightline > > Chat with "Nightline" guests and find articles, transcripts and video > excerpts on our Web site at: > http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/Nightline/ > > You can unsubscribe to the "Nightline" e-mail at: > http://login.mailpref.go.com/unsubscribe > > Ask your friends to sign up! Send them this link: > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/nightline_login.html -------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT as the BODY of the message. Un archivo de colext puede encontrarse en: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ cortesia de Anibal Monsalve Salazar
