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Officials in Tunisia were outraged. Some 23,000 of the country's workers were returning home from neighboring Libya bearing tales of forced detention, beatings and the seizure of possessions, including their passports. The unhappy caravan was the first wave of some 90,000 Tunisian workers in Libya affected by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi's decision earlier this month to expel foreign workers. Libya's economy has been hard hit by reduced earnings resulting from the oil glut...
...hostages had arrived safely in West Germany, the Israeli Cabinet on Monday voted to begin another release of prisoners taken out of Lebanon by withdrawing occupation forces. Two days later, some 300 Lebanese dressed incongruously in track suits sprinted from cell blocks in the prison of Atlit to a caravan of eleven buses that hauled them across the border to Ras al Bayada, the northernmost checkpoint of the remaining Israeli "security" (i.e., occupation) zone in southern Lebanon. There, Israeli soldiers untied white plastic ropes from the prisoners' wrists and turned them over one by one to Red Cross officials...
...Beirut time, 10:45 a.m. in Washington, the freedom ride finally began along the mountainous 75-mile road to Damascus. Accompanying the hostages were armed escorts from Amal and from another Lebanese faction, the Druze. Also in the caravan were representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Syrian army officers and security agents, which helped emphasize the pivotal role Syria had played in arranging the release of the long-waylaid passengers and crew of TWA Flight...
...were hungry, thirsty and penniless," John Cofie Godigah, 38, recalled last week from a hospital bed in Ghana. "I expected the Nigerians to show some feeling. I was mistaken." Godigah had driven his car from Lagos, Nigeria, to a border station on the Benin frontier, joining a caravan of an estimated 250 vehicles filled with foreigners who were being forced to leave the country. When the crowd tried to force its way across the choked border into Benin, Nigerian guards began firing warning shots and tear gas. Godigah was hit. He awoke in a hospital, was released after treatment...
...sense, the Siks are the only members of the original caravan still in the valley. Bob Watkins is there, but he flew from Detroit to Alaska in 1959 instead of making the long highway trip. Others drifted away, happy to sell their land for a good price. Would the Siks ever leave...