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In captivity, the hostages had been restrained in their comments to the ubiquitous TV cameras about their feelings toward the Amal militiamen holding them. Once freed, however, many of them began to vent their anger and bitterness, as well as resentment that their captors had been depicted as anything other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet Land of Liberty | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

But how can that wrath be channeled effectively against terrorists? At his White House news conference three nights earlier, Reagan had confessed that in trying to figure out a way to free the American hostages in Beirut, "I'm as frustrated as anyone. I've pounded a few walls myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Attack on Civilization | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

But while he was gaining power in the capital, Berri was also acquiring radical challenges from within his own camp. His decision to join the government of President Amin Gemayel, a Maronite, infuriated the growing number of Khomeini- inspired zealots who want to turn Lebanon into an Islamic revolutionary state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movements Within Movements | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

The hot potato of terrorism is now in Reagan's hands, and it is smoldering. Already he has been burned a bit. At his press conference last week, he had to endure that humbling American ritual of reminder. His 1980 campaign contempt for Carter's failure to win an early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhetoric Gives Way to Reality | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

None of this, however, can destroy the city's legendary mercantile spirit; even in the war-torn western sector, stores are still open, selling quality goods at bargain prices ($40 for a pair of stylish Italian-made shoes, $4 for a bottle of Scotch). Main reason: the government has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shell-Shocked Survivors | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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