Word: gunmen
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Such perversity is now commonplace in the city that was at one time a cosmopolitan gateway to the Middle East. Last week in the Muslim-controlled western sector, new depths were achieved when gunmen turned their vengeance on an 84-year-old Frenchman. Camille Sontag and his wife Blanche, 85, were driving along a seaside boulevard when a cab blocked their way. Gunmen leaped from the vehicle and pressed a pistol to Sontag's temple. Seconds later he was packed into the cab and driven away, bringing to nine the number of French currently believed to be held by extremists...
Against a background of growing official repression, at least 15 bombs exploded across Chile last week in a spasm of antigovernment violence that killed four people, including one police officer. In the capital of Santiago, four soldiers were wounded when gunmen opened fire on them from a passing car. A bomb blew a hole in the wall surrounding the residence of U.S. Ambassador Harry Barnes...
...Lebanon, gunmen dumped the corpses of three Western hostages on a road in the Chouf Mountains east of Beirut. The victims were identified as American University Librarian Peter Kilburn, 60, who had disappeared in Beirut in December 1984; and Leigh Douglas, 34, and Philip Padfield, 40, two British teachers who had been abducted three weeks before their murder. The men were among 18 British, French, U.S. and other hostages being held in Lebanon. A stenciled statement found near the bloodstained bodies said they had been killed in retaliation for the U.S. air strike against Libya. The statement was signed...
Soon after the bodies were found, a British television cameraman was abducted by gunmen in Beirut. Eighteen kidnapped foreigners, including six Americans, are still missing in Lebanon...
Throughout the Middle East, it was a bad week for the forces of moderation. In Beirut, four French television crewmen were kidnaped on Saturday by unknown gunmen. Earlier, the shadowy Islamic Jihad, believed to be the umbrella organization that includes Shi'ite Fundamentalist groups like the Iranian-backed Hizballah (Party of God), announced that it had killed French Researcher Michel Seurat, 37, one of the four other Frenchmen kidnaped in the Lebanese capital during the past two years. Six Americans and one Briton are still missing. The reasons for the alleged murder: retaliation against the French for their pro-Iraq...