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Does it make sense for the U.S. to seek moderate, as opposed to radical elements in Tehran? To be sure, on some domestic issues, such as land reform, the ruling class may have its moderate and extremist factions. But on such fundamental issues of life and death, war and foreign relations, there are no moderate groups or individuals in the government...
...thanked him. "Tell me, Tim" I said, "As a militant Islamic extremist, does the fact that the Reagan Administration arranged for arms shipments to Iran make you feel any closer to the American people...
...hostages, like 13 other foreigners held by various extremist groups, were captured randomly in the chaotic city, and have served as unhappy pawns in the larger game of Middle East politics. Besides Jacobsen and Sutherland, American University's acting dean of agriculture, the Islamic Jihad had also captured Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press. The same terrorist group also took William Buckley, political officer of the U.S. embassy, and claims to have killed him, though no body has ever been found. As a price for freeing its captives, Islamic Jihad has demanded the release...
Islamic Jihad, the extremist group that held Jacobsen, still holds two Americans, journalist Terry A. Anderson and educator Thomas Sutherland. It said last year it killed U.S. diplomat William Buckley, 57, but no body was found. Lebanese Shiite and Western intelligence sources have said Buckley may have died earlier...
...deal promptly increased pressure on the Administration to negotiate freedom for the kidnaped Americans being held hostage in Lebanon. Two of the hostages, Terry Anderson and David Jacobsen, made a videotape that was delivered to news offices in Beirut by Islamic Jihad, the extremist group holding them, and played on American TV last Friday. Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent of the Associated Press, contrasted "2 1/2 years of empty talk and refusals to act on the part of the Reagan Administration" in his case with the "propaganda and bombast with which that Administration solved the problem of Mr. Daniloff...