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...World Does the Waite mission mean new hope for the Beirut hostages? Rebuilding after Colombia's tragedy. Oman's strategic role...
...group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. But it was the culmination of an especially bloody week in the city. On Wednesday, another car bomb had exploded in East Beirut, killing 15 people, many of them children, and shattering a six-story apartment building. Scores of civilians also fell victim to artillery and mortar exchanges between rival Christian and Muslim forces. WEST GERMANY Fatal Identity...
Once again, Nehme Yafet Street in West Beirut was a battleground. Gunmen from rival Shi'ite Muslim and Druze militias crouched in doorways and fired bursts from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades into the darkness. Four floors above the fierce firefight, Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was trapped with staff members of the Associated Press. A giant of a man, who stands 6 ft. 7 in. and weighs 258 lbs., the bearded Waite, 46, was in Beirut to seek the release of four of the American hostages held by Muslim extremists. As bullets chipped...
...felt that "a good measure of mutual trust has been established," he still faced "grave difficulties" in his quest. Finally, on Sunday, he escaped the street fighting and headed to New York City, where he was scheduled to report to U.S. officials on his progress before returning to Beirut this week...
Since his arrival three days earlier--it was his second visit to Beirut in less than a week--Waite said, he had met with the kidnapers twice at secret locations in the city. Waite said he was satisfied "beyond all doubt" that he was dealing with the real kidnapers, believed to be members of Islamic Jihad, a shadowy Shi'ite Muslim extremist movement. "The situation remains very dangerous," he emphasized. "False steps, however well intentioned, that interfere with the process I have started could end in disaster...