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DIED. JOHN TESTRAKE, 68, pilot; of cancer; in St. Joseph, Missouri. Testrake was the captain of the TWA jet hijacked to Beirut in 1985. Footage of him amiably chatting with reporters from his cockpit while a gun-toting terrorist hovered about him captured the absurd horror of the 17-day ordeal...
Friedman joined the New York Times staff in 1981 and has reported from Lebanon, Israel and Washington, D.C. In 1988, he published "From Beirut to Jerusalem," a series of his reflections on the Middle East that won a National Book Award...
...youngest of three sons of a State Department official, Greg was on the move as a kid, in Washington, then in Beirut, where he literally dodged bullets by day and listened to bomb blasts at night. "I was just at that age when I could absorb it all without fearing my own mortality," he recalls. In Athens as a teenager, he was host on a show on Armed Forces Radio before returning to the States and attending the University of Arizona. He worked for the deadly B-movie studio Empire Pictures, flunked a veejay audition at mtv, then became...
Negotiators for Syria and Israel are meeting today at a secluded 1,100-acre estate about 50 miles from Washington for talks that both sides hope will lay the groundwork for a peace agreement. The talks are being brokered by the United States. Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports: "The principal barrier is clearly the future of the Golan Heights. Israel has refused to give it up entirely, and Syrian President Hafez Assad hasn't changed his position one iota. He wants control over the entire Golan Heights region. That means no Israeli presence whatsoever. Assad is very shrewd...
...underground. U.S. officials point out that the 20,000 American troops will be spread out along 500 miles of the separation zone, or 40 to a mile, leaving few big concentrations to serve as targets for a car bomb. Says a senior officer: "We've learned a lot since Beirut," where 241 servicemen died in a suicide bombing of a Marine barracks in 1983. Even so, such an attack is cause for concern--certainly fuel oil and fertilizer, the ingredients for a simple but powerful bomb, are easily available in Bosnia...