Word: benjamin
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...Wrong again. Ollie North kept arranging arms sales. There were at least four: in February, May, July and October. Three hostages eventually were released: the Rev. Benjamin Weir in September 1985, Father Lawrence Jenco last July and David Jacobsen in November. But three more Americans were kidnaped in Lebanon beginning in September. Even so, Reagan clung to his Iranian initiative to the bitter end. In his Nov. 19 press conference, after the storm had broken, the President voiced a wan hope that diplomatic contacts with Iran could continue, and Shultz had to practically bludgeon the President into announcing that there...
Israel ships two planeloads of U.S. weapons to Iran. Bank documents show that Ghorbanifar writes two checks totaling $5 million to Khashoggi. Hostage Benjamin Weir is released on Sept. 14. The Administration, hoping other hostages will be freed, delays announcing the release for four days...
...Canaday Hall and Lexington, Massachusetts; Teresa A. Mullin of Canaday Hall and Allentown, Pennsylvania; Kristin L. Olson '88 of Winthrop House and Pasadena, California; Joseph C. Tedeschi '90 of Thayer Hall and Brooklyn, New York; Julio R. Varela '90 of Holworthy Hall and New York, New York; Benjamin Waldman '89 of Lowell House and Plainview, New York; Michael E. Wall '90 of Hurlbut Hall and Malibu, California...
Despite the botched delivery, the next month, an American hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, was freed. In his press conference last week, Attorney General Edwin Meese contended that Reagan did not know about the Israeli shipment until after it had occurred, but he did not specify when the President was told. Reagan telephoned Peres to thank him for his help in winning the clergyman's release. Thus the mold was cast for future swaps involving arms and hostages...
...weapons. In September McFarlane told Kimche that Reagan opposed any arms-for-hostages deal, but some U.S. officials assert the NSC chief did not object explicitly to Israel's supplying Iran on its own. Israel delivered a planeload of arms to Iran that month; just days later, Hostage Benjamin Weir was released...