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...quickly claimed by three disparate extremist groups, all based in Lebanon and supported by Iran. According to the shadowy Islamic Jihad, the assault was supposed to have taken place in Metulla. "A tactical mistake by one of our colleagues forced us to blow it up ahead of schedule," a caller told a Western news agency in Beirut. "But in the future, the whole world will see that we can get to the heart of Israel itself." The various groups claimed that the attack was a response to two bombings in Lebanon the previous week. One, in the village of Marakah...
Cities in the basement are already contesting the criteria. By last weekend, Rand McNally was overwhelmed with outraged calls. One caller, Pat Lile, a Pine Bluff, Ark., development promoter, complained of Pine Bluff's 328th-place rating: "They don't contact one person or make one phone call. Other people use their data, and the damage proliferates." Said Mayor Edward Bartholomew of Glens Falls, N.Y., which ranked 290th: "We're going to have a public burning of (Rand McNally's) almanac and all their maps." Responded Rand McNally Public Relations Director Conroy Erickson: "All we've done is supply...
...Cobb Jr., a Louisiana attorney who represented other health-care operators, filed a suit against the state. "The people I represent are decent, hardworking people who didn't get a fair shake," Cobb complained. Once the probe was under way, Cobb contends, he got anonymous telephone threats. One caller, according to Cobb, said, "My friend, you really don't know what you're messing around with...
...Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister who disappeared May 8; Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who was last seen Dec. 3; and Father Lawrence Jenco, 51, head of the Catholic Relief Service office in Beirut, who was abducted Jan. 8. A caller to a Beirut news agency, claiming to represent Islamic Jihad, said one of the four "has been sentenced to death...
Anonymous callers to Western news agencies have said that the U.S. captives will be released only when all Americans have departed from Lebanon. At least one caller has threatened that the five will be "tried" and perhaps even executed as members of the Central Intelligence Agency. Says one frustrated U.S. official: "We honestly don't know for sure whom we are dealing with, or where the Americans are, or what we are supposed to do to get them...