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- LETTERS, Page 8Israeli View
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- In its brief profile of Israel's new Foreign Minister,
- Moshe Arens (WORLD, Jan. 2), TIME stated that when Arens was
- Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. in 1982, he "made enemies . .
- . by misleading Washington about Israeli intentions in the
- conduct of the war" in Lebanon. This accusation is evidently
- based on a story TIME published in 1982 and is totally
- unfounded. On that occasion, Arens met with TIME's editors and
- referred them to State Department officials who had been present
- at that time to set the record straight. It is surprising that
- this unfounded allegation should crop up again 6 1/2 years
- later.
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- Alon Liel, Spokesman Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Jerusalem
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- TIME's stories were based on interviews with U.S.
- Government officials in 1982 and again in December 1988.
-