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Meanwhile, the drama of the dangerous mission of Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, continued to unfold. On Jan. 20, Waite dismissed his Druze militia bodyguards and disappeared into West Beirut, apparently to meet with people holding some of the hostages. By last week there was little doubt that he had ceased to be a free agent. Nabih Berri, leader of the relatively moderate Shi'ite Amal militia, said he had learned that Waite had been arrested but not kidnaped, a distinction that offered little solace. Walid Jumblatt, head of Lebanon's Druze community, felt...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Gunmen killed an Iranian envoy and foiled a mercy mission yesterday when they fired on two U.N. trucks carrying food to besieged and hungry Palestinian refugees, police reported...
Amid the kidnapings that have tormented Beirut in recent years and sown frustration and despair in Western capitals, Anglican Envoy Terry Waite has been a calm symbol of hope. In five missions to Lebanon, the 6-ft. 7-in. troubleshooter has established himself as one of the few Westerners able to bargain with the terrorists holding foreigners hostage. So it was all the more disturbing last week when Waite himself, who vanished Jan. 20 during his latest mission, appeared to have become a captive. While reports of Waite's kidnaping remained unconfirmed, they steadily grew more alarming. Over the weekend...
...hard to make this stick after the Iran thing," conceded a senior U.S. diplomat. Indeed, the disappearance of Waite may have provided evidence of that. In the aftermath of the scandal over secret U.S. arms sales % in exchange for hostages, the temptation to seize and hold the Anglican envoy as a bargaining chip may have been too great for terrorists to resist...
...still more may spoil or be stolen. "I wouldn't claim that 100% gets exactly where it should," concedes Jean-Pierre Hocke, United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Hocke estimates that up to 10% of relief contributions for refugees never gets to them. Says Millicent Fenwick, the American envoy to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome: "You have to understand that we are dealing with human beings, not saints...