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...Hill, 57, waited anxiously with seven other American hostages in a house four miles south of Beirut, his keepers, who belonged to Lebanon's Amal militia, brought the prisoners some of the baggage from the plane's hold. "Luckily, my suitcase was among the bags delivered, and the camera was still inside," Hill said last week in his office in a Chicago suburb. "Not once during our whole captivity did they know I had a camera...
Over the next several days, Hill used his camera judiciously, snapping pictures only when he was certain the guards were fast asleep. "They were vigilant enough, but there were only two of them the whole time, with no relief," said Hill, who has been harsh in his criticism of Amal since his return to the U.S. "They weren't lazy, just exhausted...
Some of the pictures he took are almost lighthearted. In one, a guard is caught napping in a patch of sunlight; in another, seven hostages are dining in a kitchen, a kettle on the stove, a yellow shirt and underwear drying in the window. But Hill also aimed his camera in earnest, particularly on one occasion when he was able to reach the roof of the building in which he and his fellow hostages were being held, and photographed the neighborhood. "I hoped to take pictures that investigators could use in the future to pinpoint our location," he said...
...conversation about the relationship between philosophy and physics. At a clock museum, she jokingly inquired whether one ceremonial item was a Swiss watch; the director sheepishly admitted it was French. Raisa Gorbachev also demonstrated a beguiling bilingualism. Fingering a jeweled antique timepiece, she displayed it to U.S. television camera crews and warbled in accented English...
...deaths each day dropped from 3.4 to fewer than two in the weeks immediately following Pretoria's imposition of media restraints on Nov. 2, the average daily toll last week rose above five. The statistic was a sharp challenge to the government's contention that without television and camera crews present to incite publicity-hungry blacks to violent heroics, the disturbances would quiet down. As unrest flared in Queenstown and Mamelodi, two black areas that had been relatively calm, the protesters seemed to be indifferent to the absence of reporters...