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...late July, two months after the McFarlane mission, Father Lawrence Jenco was released, and the arms trade was revived. In August another shipment of 500 TOWs and Hawks was sent from Texas to Tel Aviv and on to Tehran, and the White House told the State Department to expect the release of several more hostages. In the fall three more Americans in Beirut were kidnaped. In October, the U.S. sent yet another arms shipment to Iran; less than a month later, Hostage David Jacobsen was released. But only a few days before his release, a Lebanese Arabic journal, Al Shiraa...
Laurie A. Mylroie is an assistant professor of Government. She is an assistant director for academic affairs in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and is the editor of the Harvard Middle East Papers. She was a fellow last summer at Tel Aviv University's Dayan Center as an American Professor for Peace in the Middle East...
Vanunu is believed to be undergoing interrogation by Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, at a former British fort south of Tel Aviv. He could be charged with violating the country's Official Secrets Act or, worse, with treason, which carries a possible lifetime prison sentence. However, Israeli officials are leery of placing Vanunu on trial. Reason: a verdict of guilty, they concede, would have the effect of confirming his story...
...Aviv, meanwhile, an Israeli expert on Syria said Hindawi was under orders from Syrian air force intelligence chief Gen. Mohammed el-Khouli to blow up the Israeli El Al plane. El-Khouli reports to Syrian President Hafez Assad...
...release of the 39 TWA hostages in June 1985, was expected to use the captured pilot as a bargaining chip in his efforts to free some 250 Lebanese and Palestinian guerrillas believed held in a jail near the border by the Israeli- backed South Lebanon Army. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli army's chief spokesman, Brigadier General Ephraim Lapid, delcared, "We will not rest until we have recovered the missing man." The events in Lebanon almost overshadowed the bloody terrorist attack in Jerusalem scarcely one day earlier. Some 300 young recruits of the army's Givati Brigade had just been...