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...eight Americans and 15 other foreigners held hostage in Lebanon. Among them was Terry Waite, special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who disappeared in West Beirut in January while trying to negotiate the hostages' release. Last week the Beirut magazine Ash Shiraa reported that Waite would soon be freed for a $5 million ransom worked out by an unidentified Lebanese leader. Until Syria and Iran can somehow resolve their differences, these other captives, like Glass until last week, will remain pawns in a wider struggle...
...release of the dolphins was the work of the Oceanic Research Communication Alliance, a ragtag team of dolphin lovers and scientists. Most previous attempts to release captive dolphins have been ad hoc or ill conceived. In 1977, for example, animal liberationists "freed" two dolphins from a tank in Hawaii. Hours later one of them was briefly spotted foundering on a reef, badly lacerated. Even so, scientists and conservationists are - increasingly interested in readapting captive or injured sea animals to the wilds. Last month the New England Aquarium, with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, organized a successful attempt...
...scale free enterprise and introduced the profit principle in state-owned industries. His policy of openness has encouraged the press to speak out more freely and produced an unprecedented thaw in the country's intellectual and cultural life. In the human-rights field, scores of political prisoners have been freed and the rate of Jewish emigration has been increasing -- to 3,092 for the first half of this year, up sharply from last year's level but far below the peak...
...people jailed for politically related offenses was released; among them was the Rev. Moon Ik Kwan, one of the country's most prominent dissidents before he was found guilty of sedition following student protests last year in the city of Inchon, near Seoul. More prisoners are expected to be freed in the near future, though the government and opposition disagree on the exact number of offenders who are behind bars for strictly political reasons...
...demonstrations are recovering, and a second hospital, where he commiserated with the father of a student lying in a coma as the result of an injury suffered in the protests. For his part, Kim visited two prisons to assure political detainees that, under new government decrees, they will be freed. On Thursday, Roh and Kim held their first official meeting, discussing preparations for constitutional negotiations...