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...including a high-level Friday afternoon meeting that included Cabinet members. Shultz did not even wait to consult with Reagan before taking the unprecedented step of shutting down all sensitive electronic communications with the Moscow embassy. U.S. diplomatic posts around the world are now transmitting Moscow-bound traffic to Frankfurt, where select courier teams are on call to hand-carry material to the Soviet capital. Within the embassy, secretaries have been forbidden to use any machine that emits electronic signals, including electric typewriters and word processors. Even the Xerox machine has been shut down. Shultz has already asked Congress...
...fall of 1986 North dreamed up a rather surrealistic Bible-for-Koran swap to demonstrate U.S. good intentions. It eventually backfired when the Iranians displayed the Bible to humiliate the President. In October, North journeyed to Frankfurt, West Germany, to meet with a group of Iranians and presented them with a Bible inscribed by the President with words from St. Paul's letter to the Galatians: "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, 'All the nations shall be blessed in you.' " As he did so, he told them...
West Germany, which holds suspected TWA Hijacker Mohammed Ali Hamadei, 22, in a Frankfurt jail, wrestled with its own problems. The capture of Hamadei, who is wanted in the U.S. for the hijacking and the murder of Navy Diver Robert Stethem, seemed to have led to the kidnaping of the two West Germans in Beirut two weeks ago and helped set off the recent rash of abductions. Some German officials fear that giving in to U.S. pressure for speedy extradition of Hamadei could lead to more West German kidnapings. Still, the Germans last week arrested Abbas Ali Hamadei...
...abductions brought to eight the number of Americans known to be held in Lebanon. Ironically, the episode that sparked the new wave of terror appeared to be the Jan. 13 arrest in Frankfurt, West Germany, of a Lebanese suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and the subsequent murder of a U.S. Navy diver. The kidnapings also coincided with the latest mission to Beirut by Anglican Emissary Terry Waite, his first since it was revealed last November that the U.S. had sold weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages held by pro- Iranian groups in Lebanon...
...hijacking and suspects in the killing of Navy Diver Robert Stethem. Hamadei is thought to be one of the two gunmen who were actually aboard TWA Flight 847 when it was commandeered and who savagely beat and then shot the American sailor. Hamadei was detained at Frankfurt's international airport after officials discovered he was carrying a false passport and bottles packed with liquid explosives...