Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capture of the terrorists who had seized the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Though North claimed credit for devising and executing the operation, colleagues say Poindexter deserves the greater honor. They vividly remember him sitting coolly at his desk munching a sandwich from the White House mess and sipping a glass of red wine while directing the interception by Navy jets of the Egyptian airliner carrying the seajackers...
...Rome and Vienna airport massacres that killed 19 in December 1985. Moreover, while still railing against Israel, Syrian radio now broadcasts stinging criticisms of terrorist acts. One statement specifically condemned taking "innocents and journalists" hostage, an obvious reference to last month's kidnaping of former ABC Correspondent Charles Glass in Lebanon. Glass's abductors last week released a video recording in which the journalist confessed to being a spy for the CIA. The State Department vehemently denied that Glass had ever worked for the U.S. Government...
...With 7,500 Syrian troops in West Beirut and an additional 25,000 in north and east Lebanon, Assad has been embarrassed by Glass's kidnaping. Assad's dilemma: fighting the Beirut terrorists would, in effect, mean confronting their chief patron, Iran, which Damascus supports in its protracted war with Iraq. According to Israeli sources, when Syrian Army General Ghazi Kenaan led his troops into Beirut in February, he wanted to curb the power of Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Shi'ite group based in the Lebanese capital that is believed to hold most of the 24 foreign hostages, including nine...
...other subjects. Pressed by Kim as to whether he was fully aware of the gravity of the situation, Chun assured his visitor he had received complete and voluminous reporting on the demonstrations and other developments. Said the President, who was seated next to a table holding a glass ashtray: "In fact, I have been smoking heavily because of the pressure of reading so many reports." Chun pointedly refused to rule out a military crackdown, claiming that "hard-core leftists" were partly responsible for the current disorders. "It is best, if at all possible, not to use emergency measures," he said...
...Lebanon, meanwhile, the U.S. suffered another disappointment. After a week of threats and pressure from Syria, Shi'ite Muslim extremists released Ali Osseiran, the son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran, a Shi'ite political ally of the Syrians.' But the terrorists did not free Charles Glass, an American television journalist who was abducted a week earlier along with Osseiran. Brigadier General Ghazi Kenaan, intelligence chief for the 7,500 Syrian troops that occupy most of the Muslim half of Beirut, had said he would free both Glass and Osseiran "at all costs." Late in the week he began restricting...