Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kidnaped beer baron is freed...
...also worried about the safety of the six Israeli soldiers, knowing that they were being held in the Tripoli area as it came under bombardment and that one of them had reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown. Finally, after weeks of secret negotiations, Israel took the first step: it freed 1,100 Palestinians, most of whom had been held at the Ansar prison camp in southern Lebanon, and flew them to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, from which Air France jetliners carried them on to Algeria...
Shares in the new AT&T were the fastest-moving stock. Now that divestiture has freed the company to compete head-on with ITT, IBM and other giants in the telecommunications and computer businesses, AT&T has suddenly become a tempting growth stock, with the potential for rapid rises (but also for precipitous drops). By week's end, 23.4 million shares in the new AT&T had been traded...
...course, there are still large areas of disagreement between the Law School administration and the Third World Coalition which is leading white as well as minority student advocates of affirmative action and curriculum reform. But the atmosphere at the Law School is freed of much of last year's tension. By loosening up and listening to student concerns (and coincidentally by taking a gutsy public stand against the illegal USA invasion of Grenada), Law School dean James Vorenberg has shown commendable sensitivity to the on-campus and beyond-campus issues that Black and other minority people care deeply about. Such...
Some believe Arafat's defeat would actually pave the way lot a negotiated settlement since it would free Jordan's King Hussein from his 1979 commitment to honor the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. Thus freed, they argue. Hussein could negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians...