Word: beirutization
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...former captors to the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and President Reagan. He was determined to do this in person in order to leave no doubt whatever in his captors' minds that he had kept his word, explained Terry Waite, the Archbishop's special envoy, who has visited Beirut three times in an effort to gain the hostages' release...
...other for washing. Each man was allowed to use a toilet only once a day, though a urinal bottle was provided. Apparently fearing a rescue mission by the Syrians if not the Americans, the captors moved Jenco to seven different locations, probably either in the slums of southern Beirut or in the Bekaa Valley. As a further precaution, the jailers never permitted the priest to see their faces...
...efforts of Terry Waite and other churchmen on behalf of the hostages. The indefatigable Waite, tight-lipped as always, said only that it was "not a coincidence" that he was in the Middle East at the time Jenco was freed, and revealed that he planned to return to Beirut shortly...
...home." What he will do after that is anyone's guess. His Servite Order announced last week that he has actually been offered his old job as Catholic Relief Services director in Lebanon. "I would sort of doubt that Father Jenco will want to go back to Beirut," an official of the order told the Chicago Sun-Times. "But you never know. He is the type of person who might say, " 'Sure...
...minute, the white Mercedes-Benz sat parked in the working-class neighborhood of Ain Rummaneh in Christian East Beirut. The next, 330 lbs. of explosives hidden inside the vehicle went off in a mighty roar, totally demolishing the car and setting seven nearby apartment buildings ablaze. Thirty-two died and 140 were injured in the blast...