Word: benjamin
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...friends to know "that the Lord has taken good care of us so far, and he has seen us through many trying times and will see us through to the end." At one point, a gunman fired through a window to keep other reporters and photographers away. Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmermann, 45, of Cascade, Idaho, sent greetings to his wife, children and father. Zimmermann, who is a Lutheran pastor, evidently had not been told that his father, the Rev. Elmer Zimmermann, had died in St. Louis four days earlier while attending a prayer vigil...
...presents. "I was going to pick her up this evening," said Stockbroker Stephen Davis of his daughter. "We just sit here and wait." In Florissant, Mo., Katharine Ellerbrock tuned in a morning TV show and realized that she was listening to the recorded voice of her brother, Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmerman, talking to the Beirut control tower. She said her brother, who manages to be both a full-time TWA pilot and a Lutheran pastor with a ministry in the mountains of Idaho, was "strong, steady and stable" and "has got to be a comfort to the passengers." In Richmond...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo had only remembered Benjamin Disraeli's maxim "Never complain, never explain," he might have avoided some heavy fire from the National Rifle Association. In March, Cuomo offhandedly told a Los Angeles Times reporter that opposition to New York's new mandatory seat-belt law had mostly come from "N.R.A. hunters, who drink beer, don't vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend." When he saw his words in a Times story last month, the liberal Democratic Governor and possible presidential candidate realized that he had insulted a large, well-organized conservative...
...Westerners kidnaped by the shadowy forces of Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, has been killed. But the situation is worsening as the Shi'ite extremists step up their demands. The four Americans pictured in the terrorist photographs were: Terry Anderson, 37, Associated Press Beirut bureau chief; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, a Roman Catholic priest; and U.S. Embassy Official William Buckley, 56, who was abducted on March 16, 1984, making him the longest-held American captive. A fifth American, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut...
...Consul General was being honored in our dormitory. Did the University hope for us to sit in the dining halls, discuss the visit, and let it pass routinely by? Jeff L. Jorgensen '85 William M. Mallard '85 Zachary Robinson GSAS Jen Nessel '88 Pauls Raudseps Richard H. Draylon '86 Benjamin B. Robinson '85 Scott Nova Melinda B. Daetsch '85 Elizabeth E. Ruddick...