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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beirut, Shi'ite Amal militiamen took 37 American male passengers off the TWA jet hijacked two weeks ago and hid them somewhere in the chaos of the western sector of the city. The triumphant captors brought five of their victims before TV cameras for a news conference, in which the prisoners pleaded that the U.S. not try to rescue them or take any military reprisal lest all the hostages die. At week's end the Shi'ite Party of God staged a rally around the captured jet; 1,000 demonstrators cheered the hijackers and chanted "Death to America...
...mainstream Amal organization, far friendlier than the original terrorists, and they seemed to influence the very character of the hijacking. When Flight 847 landed at Beirut on Sunday for the third time in as many days, the remaining passengers were taken to unknown locations, probably in the poor Shi'ite neighborhoods around the airport. The three crewmen were kept on the plane, under heavy guard...
...chat with TWA Captain John Testrake, 57, pilot of the ill-fated Flight 847. He sat in the cockpit, looking fit but somewhat in need of a shave, with a pistol- toting gunman at his side. Not far away was the hulk of a Jordanian airliner destroyed by Shi'ite terrorists a week earlier...
...Testrake interview had a side effect that the militiamen had not counted on: it stirred up the crowd of foreign journalists on hand. They pressed harder for advantage and constantly confronted the rifle barrels of the angry gunmen. The most remarkable case was that of a Lebanese Shi'ite driver working for Newsweek. The driver rode onto the tarmac in a food van and, pretending to be a relative of one of the hijackers, proceeded to the steps of the plane. "Trick! Journalist!" a gunman screamed as he spotted the man's camera. As the driver fled from the scene...
...Burlington, Vt., Vincente Garza, 53, of Laredo, Texas, Peter Hill and Arthur Toga. The political purpose of the event was transparent: Conwell read a statement urging President Reagan not to try to rescue the hostages by military means. He also called for the release of the 776 Shi'ite detainees in Israel "who undoubtedly have as equal and as strong a desire to go home as we do." When asked if he felt that he and the other hostages were being held by the same Shi'ite faction as the one the original hijackers belonged to, Conwell replied, "There...