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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since shortly after Cicippio's disappearance, his brother Thomas, 65, has kept a running tally on the front lawn of his Norristown home of the number of days Joseph has been in captivity. "I always felt the hostages were kept on the back burner," says the retired postal worker. "I had no way of knowing what was happening...
Although the kidnaping was a success, two days later the larger plan appeared to be backfiring. Recognizing that the U.S. could be more easily pressured than Israel by threats against its hostages, a Hizballah front group calling itself the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth vowed to kill Colonel Higgins unless Obeid was released. Israeli Cabinet officials convened an emergency meeting to formulate a counteroffer. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin proposed an exchange of Obeid and the estimated 150 Lebanese Shi'ites held in Israeli prisons for the release of the three Israeli soldiers and all the Western hostages...
...change, there was good news from the front lines in the nation's seemingly intractable war on drugs. A new federal survey has found that casual drug use just may be winding down...
...daily. Those estimates could be low, since the pollsters surveyed only households, not transients or people in hospitals and prisons. Said drug czar William Bennett: "We're now fighting two drug wars": a manageable fight against casual users and a more intense battle against crack addiction. "On this second front," he added grimly, "we are not winning...
...type of shady deal was "front-running," in which a broker profits from advance information by trading ahead of a customer's order. A crooked broker might receive an order, for example, to buy 250,000 bu. of soybeans at $5.85 a bu. He could easily execute his own order to buy 50,000 bu. first. Later, when the market reacted to the larger order by pushing prices up to $5.95, the trader could sell his contracts, pocketing $5,000 in profits. A second illicit practice uncovered by the feds was "curb trading," in which brokers conspired to consummate deals...