World Notes ISRAEL

After his family's house was blown up last month during the Israeli army's crackdown in the West Bank, suspected Palestinian Agitator Nizar Dakdouk agreed to discuss the incident with U.S. television newsmen. A film crew claiming to be from ABC News picked up Dakdouk, 18, ostensibly for an interview, but then drove him to jail instead. ABC last week alleged that the "crew" had been a team of impostors from Israel's Shin Bet internal security service.

ABC News President Roone Arledge sent a protest to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, charging that the masquerade presented "grave perils to the safety of legitimate journalists." Israeli officials refused to confirm ABC's account of the affair, but a spokesman for Shamir said the allegations would be investigated.