Word: beirutization
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...BEIRUT, Lebanon--Gunmen killed an Iranian envoy and foiled a mercy mission yesterday when they fired on two U.N. trucks carrying food to besieged and hungry Palestinian refugees, police reported...
...Iranian Embassy in Beirut could not immediately be reached for comment...
Waite's disappearance was the most dramatic development last week in a Beirut hostage crisis that seemed to be getting completely out of hand. From the White House to 10 Downing Street, leaders struggled to cope with the deteriorating situation. In less than a month nine foreigners, including three U.S. citizens, were seized in the violence-torn Lebanese capital, bringing the number of foreign captives to 24. The Reagan Administration responded last week by ordering U.S. citizens out of Lebanon and strengthening its naval presence in the Middle East. In London the Archbishop of Canterbury sent urgent messages to Beirut...
...Beirut a previously unknown group called Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine responded to U.S. naval movements by warning that it would kill the three Americans and one Indian national kidnaped from Beirut University College two weeks ago if the U.S. attacked Lebanon. Along with the message, they released a photo showing Hostage Robert Polhill, 52, an accounting lecturer from New York, with automatic weapons aimed at his head. The other captives: Alann Steen, 47, a journalism instructor who previously taught at California's Humboldt State University; Jesse Jonathan Turner, 39, a mathematics professor from Boise; and Mithileshwar Singh...
...Hijacker Mohammed Ali Hamadei, 22, in a Frankfurt jail, wrestled with its own problems. The capture of Hamadei, who is wanted in the U.S. for the hijacking and the murder of Navy Diver Robert Stethem, seemed to have led to the kidnaping of the two West Germans in Beirut two weeks ago and helped set off the recent rash of abductions. Some German officials fear that giving in to U.S. pressure for speedy extradition of Hamadei could lead to more West German kidnapings. Still, the Germans last week arrested Abbas Ali Hamadei, 30, the suspect's brother, at the Frankfurt...