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...American University's agriculture and food sciences faculty. Sutherland had been kidnaped earlier in the week as he was riding in a six-car convoy from Beirut airport to his campus home. He thus became the seventh American and the twelfth Westerner currently being held by various extremist groups in Lebanon...
...book's title refers to the two extremist factions in the nuclear debate and the compromise the K-School group proposes...
...embassy. And in Kuwait late last week, the ruling Emir, Sheik Jaber al Ahmed al Sabah, narrowly missed death when a car bomb exploded in his motorcade. The driver of the car, who was killed in the attack, apparently was a member of Islamic Jihad, the Shi'ite extremist group...
...disperse a crowd of 200 Arabs. Some of the settlers cried, "Death to the Arabs!" Hundreds of West Bank settlers demonstrated outside the Knesset. Their demand: release of 27 Israelis who have been convicted of terrorism or who are charged with being members of a Jewish extremist group. The settlers' efforts were supported by leading figures in the Likud bloc, a partner with Peres' Labor Party in the national unity government. The Likud's leader, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said in a radio interview that he favored the release of the Israeli extremists "if only they publicly express their remorse...
...wisdom of the exchange were also raised in other areas. Said Clinton Bailey, an Arab-affairs expert at Tel Aviv University: "The release of all these convicted murderers is going to confuse the issues of justice and respect for the law and make it very difficult to counter Jewish extremist demands." Others argued that the release would make it harder for Israel to maintain its traditional position that there can be no negotiations with terrorists and no compromise with terrorism. But to Peres and his Labor Party colleagues, the prisoner swap was an essential step in ending...