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...hostages' putative host was Amal Leader Nabih Berri, who is negotiating on behalf of the hijackers. One of his first efforts at conciliation was mildly encouraging. He announced on Tuesday that he had talked the hijackers into releasing three "Greeks," including Folk Singer Demis Roussos. The others turned out to be the singer's American secretary, Pamela Smith, and an American of Greek descent, Arthur Targotsidis, 18, of Brockton, Mass. Roussos burbled with good feelings as he told reporters that the gunmen were "so nice to me, I cannot tell you." In fact, said Roussos, he had sung...
...Berri had promised that he would try to arrange for reporters to meet with the hostages, and on Thursday he staged the press conference at the airport featuring five of the 40 captive Americans. The five were Allyn Conwell, 39, of Houston, Thomas Cullins, 42, of Burlington, Vt., Vincente Garza, 53, of Laredo, Texas, Peter Hill and Arthur Toga. The political purpose of the event was transparent: Conwell read a statement urging President Reagan not to try to rescue the hostages by military means. He also called for the release of the 776 Shi'ite detainees in Israel "who undoubtedly...
...same time, the hijackers demanded to see Amal Leader Nabih Berri, representatives of the United Nations and the Red Cross, and the ambassadors of France, Spain and Britain; they later agreed that such a meeting could be held at Berri's residence, where he would act as their representative. The terrorists' repeated emphasis on seeing officials of Amal, the mainstream Shi'ite organization, suggested not only that they were seeking a negotiated settlement but that their motivation may have been essentially political rather than ideological...
...their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser Arafat would not assist beleaguered Arafat followers in the camps. Accordingly, Berri ordered 5,000 of his militiamen, aided by a predominantly Shi'ite brigade of the Lebanese Army, to storm the Palestinian strongholds. To his surprise, the Palestinians...
...Berri had clearly underestimated the Palestinians' determination to resist the onslaught. From hilltops east of Beirut, Palestinian gunners belonging to anti-Arafat P.L.O. groups fired artillery and rocket volleys into Amal positions. Whatever their differences with Arafat, his P.L.O. opponents were furious at the strong-arm tactics of the Shi'ites. Said George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "No force on earth can take away the arms of a people who defend their just cause." Abu Mousa, another leading P.L.O. dissident, accused Amal of "disseminating lies to cover its crimes against Palestinians." While...