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...convoy of three vehicles pulled to a stop in front of the old U.S. embassy building on Ein Mreisseh Boulevard in Muslim West Beirut at 7 Sunday morning. As planned, a Westerner wearing dark glasses slid into the seat of one of the cars. Then, escorted by two truckloads of Lebanese police as a precaution against sniper fire, the convoy barreled toward the Green Line that divides the city's Muslim and Christian sectors. Minutes later, the cars crossed safely into Christian East Beirut, and David Jacobsen, director of Beirut's American University Hospital, was a free...
...after the months of few developments, events moved quickly last week. Waite showed up unexpectedly in Beirut on Friday for his first visit in ten months. He clearly hoped to improve on his record of one release at a time. Islamic Jihad seemed to indicate that diplomatic activity was afoot that could achieve such a goal. Although State Department officials insisted that no deal was in the works, the terrorist group said in a statement following Jacobsen's release that the U.S. had embarked on "approaches that could lead, if continued, to a solution of the hostages issue...
...control campaign by addressing the one issue that could restore some of Syria's image in the West: the 20 foreigners held hostage by Shi'ite extremists in Lebanon. As he has in the past when it served his purposes, notably in the release of TWA passengers hijacked to Beirut in 1985, Assad asserted his authority with the Shi'ite groups and apparently arranged for at least a token hostage release. Waite, whose patient efforts to end the hostage crisis were well known to Syria, made a secret visit to Damascus on Saturday, evidently to arrange the details of Jacobsen...
Waite's mission was a secret until he called the Beirut office of the Associated Press on Friday to tell a reporter that negotiations "appear to be moving." Then he added cryptically, " You keep an eye, just keep an eye." Waite left Beirut late Friday by U.S. helicopter for Cyprus. Dozens of reporters quickly set up watch at the Larnaca airport on the island, and in the absence of any hard information, rumors about a hostage deal began sweeping through the Middle East. Seven thousand miles away, campaigning for Republican candidates in Washington State and aware of the possibility...
...presumably be the freeing of some or all of 108 Shi'ites being held in southern Lebanon by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia. It was not clear whether a grand swap would also involve other Arab prisoners held in the West. According to one report circulating in Beirut, France would turn loose Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. French officials promptly denied any such deal...