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Administration officials were considering the options of putting a bounty on the hijackers' heads or planning some kind of retaliation. Washington had attempted to "isolate" Beirut airport with an international boycott. But only British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed any sympathy for the proposal, and even she said she would take no action unless other West European nations went along. So far, none have. The Lebanese government, however, last week promised to tighten security at the airport...
...more than eleven hours of talks, Shi'ite, Sunni and Druze leaders announced a 16-point agreement. The accord was significant in that for the first time it proposed power sharing between Muslims and Christians on an equal basis. The agreement also promised to tighten security at the Beirut airport, a pledge that received warm approval from the Reagan Administration...
While the debate was going on, a new Syrian-backed security proposal was going into effect in Lebanon, initially with promising results. Some 200 red-bereted policemen, backed by 400 Lebanese soldiers and Syrian observers, took over security in Muslim West Beirut and at Beirut International Airport. For the first time in several weeks, militiamen all but disappeared from the city's streets, and the offices of the various Muslim militia groups were shut down. The changed situation prompted the feuding Christian militias on the other side of Beirut's "green line" to reunite their fighting forces. The Syrians...
...Peter Magubane returned to work last week after spending seven days in a hospital recovering from buckshot wounds received when he was caught in police crossfire at a funeral near Johannesburg. Says Magubane: "I'm fine now, but I'm a bit worried about the metal detectors at the airport when I leave. I'm still carrying 17 lead pellets in my feet and backside...
...Obote fled, reportedly across the border to Kenya, crowds of happy civilians poured into the streets to celebrate. Yet it was quickly apparent that the new military government was still unsteady. One of the first acts of the new regime, apparently headed by Okello, was to close the international airport at Entebbe. Before long, the roughly 2,000 soldiers patrolling the streets were hard pressed to keep order as the celebration degenerated into a looting spree. Stores were smashed open, and one pilfering soldier was shot dead. A few hours later, a spokesman began broadcasting on radio to announce...