Word: amal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sleep, we smoke," said Peter Hill, 57, of Hoffman Estates, Ill., at the midweek news conference given by five of the hostages under the watchful eyes of their captors. The setting was grimly appropriate for a hostage press conference. Nearby were three refugee camps where Palestinian defenders and Amal militiamen have been locked in bloody combat for more than a month. Several miles to the north, artillery duels were flaring sporadically along the "green line" dividing East and West Beirut...
...hostages' putative host was Amal Leader Nabih Berri, who is negotiating on behalf of the hijackers. One of his first efforts at conciliation was mildly encouraging. He announced on Tuesday that he had talked the hijackers into releasing three "Greeks," including Folk Singer Demis Roussos. The others turned out to be the singer's American secretary, Pamela Smith, and an American of Greek descent, Arthur Targotsidis, 18, of Brockton, Mass. Roussos burbled with good feelings as he told reporters that the gunmen were "so nice to me, I cannot tell you." In fact, said Roussos, he had sung...
...sweetness and light at Beirut airport. A gunman aboard the plane had told the Beirut tower that if there was no progress in the negotiations by the next morning, the terrorists would order the explosives- laden jetliner to be flown to Israel and blown up over Tel Aviv. An Amal militiaman scolded the gunman and ordered him "not to make any such threats." There were reports from Israel that had the hijackers tried to take off again in the TWA plane, the Israelis would have fired at the 727's tail section from a missile boat offshore, hoping to incapacitate...
...Tehran in 1979 and 1980, the militants trampled and burned an American flag and chanted, "Death to Israel and America, the Great Satan." Though their hatred of the U.S. was genuine enough, one purpose of their demonstration in the early summer heat was to steal a little thunder from Amal, with whom they are in conflict for the leadership of Lebanon's 1 million Shi'ite Muslims...
...then adorned with the messianic title of Imam, Moussa Sadr established and funded a Shi'ite militia named Amal, the Arabic word for "hope." Celebrating the deeds of Shi'ite warriors of the past, the Imam declared, "Arms were the adornment of men." Moussa Sadr then vanished in a manner guaranteed to immortalize him to his followers. On a visit to Libya in 1978, he simply disappeared. Many Shi'ites still believe that he remains the captive of Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi...