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Journalist Thomas Friedman Reports from Beirut

The New York Times correspondent's new book is called From Beirut to Jerusalem, about Arab-Israeli conflicts in the Middle East. He joins Fresh Air to discuss how cultivating a network of contacts, coming to terms with the frequent violence he witnessed in Lebanon, and how those experience affected his reporting in Israel.

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Other segments from the episode on June 30, 1989

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, June 30, 1989: Interview with Thomas Friedman; Commentary on Herschel Evans; Interview with Drew Takahashi; Review of the home video release of the film "Child's Play."

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