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According to police, Atwa said he and the others were members of Islamic Jihad, a claim later affirmed by an anonymous caller in Beirut and then disputed in a statement delivered to news agencies there. The confusion may stem from Iran's recent efforts to play down its connections with terrorists in hopes of winning international support for its 4 1/2-year struggle against Iraq. Atwa told police that his friends had managed to smuggle two grenades and a 9-mm pistol through the airport's X-ray machines by wrapping the weapons in fiber glass insulation...
...Americans, more than involve the citizens of any other country. Analysts have worried in the past about the U.S.'s acquiring a reputation among terrorists and governments that support them as a target that can be struck with impunity, and the latest hijacking could reinforce that view. A weekend caller to Western news offices in Beirut bragged that the hijacking proved that Islamic Jihad could strike against "U.S. imperialism" at will...
However, not everyone who witnessed the general's address came away impressed. "Marshall's plan meant nothing to me at the time," says Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of Literature and Languages Emeritus. Hammond serves as "caller" on the platform at Commencement and has seen almost every ceremony since his own graduation...
...third caller of the evening called again. He asked me it I stuttered and apologized for his rudeness. He said he felt terribly embarrassed to look courage to make that second call; I applaud his thought and effort. Frankly, it made my evening--I don't get many apologies. Although I would love not to get harassed on the phone quite so often, my thought is for the other two callers. Did they know what they were doing? Probably not. Would they feel embarrassed if they had? Probably. There would have been no need to feel embarrassed if these three...
...villages had fled to Sidon. In the Beirut area, Islamic fundamentalists kidnaped a French diplomat, and two other employees of the French embassy were presumed to have been abducted, bringing to six the number of Westerners who have disappeared in the capital in the past two weeks. A telephone caller to Western news agencies in Beirut claimed that the radical group Islamic Holy War was holding the three...