Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Ocampo. "It will be a cease-fire in place." Still, he pledged that the rebels, who control 18% of the country's 42,000 villages, would honor the truce. Said Mitra, for his part: "Both sides won the war." He added that the negotiations had been "eased through friendship and goodwill," noting that he and the N.D.F. negotiators had been journalistic colleagues long before President Ferdinand Marcos declared war on the insurgents by imposing martial...
Besse's murder took place as another terrorist drama unfolded in a West Berlin courtroom. Opening amid tight security, the trial of Palestinians Ahmed Hasi and Farouk Salameh brought forward evidence that the Syrian government was linked to the March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian...
Meanwhile West German attention focused on the Hasi-Salameh case. The pretrial confessions read to the court pointed to Syrian involvement. Both defendants admitted that a suitcase bomb used in the Friendship Society attack last March had been obtained from the Syrian embassy in East Berlin. Hasi said a man he knew as Abu Ahmed gave him the bomb in the embassy kitchen. After the device twice failed to explode, a Syrian explosives expert was summoned from the embassy. A few days later the bomb went...
Further links between Hindawi and Hasi emerged last week. Hasi's written confession described how Hindawi had helped arrange the Friendship Society bombing in West Berlin. Hasi said his brother had flown with Salameh to Damascus last January to discuss the attack with Syrian military intelligence officials. Hindawi made the trip, Hasi's statement said, after failing to receive Libyan support for his operations. In East Berlin, Fayssal Sammak, Syria's Ambassador to East Germany, labeled the confession "lies, pure lies...
Britain is America's ally, but that abstract agreement is brought to life by personification, by the friendship and ideological comradeship of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Libya is America's enemy, but that enmity glowers as a private hostility between Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi. If the values of American initiative need commending, Reagan will shed his spotlight on a Mother Hale of Harlem, as he did in the 1985 State of the Union message, and elevate one woman to emblemize an entire economic and social theory. If heroism in war is to be honored, a single veteran will stand beside...