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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fought off aides who whispered that the men who maneuvered for the release of Polhill and Reed must show they can get something in return. Bush has spawned what is now called the "no-deal deal." This includes his vague thanks, subtle pressure on Israel to release Shi'ite prisoners, hints that $1 billion of frozen Iranian assets will be freed faster. The U.S. will increase its efforts to learn the fate of four Iranians who disappeared in Lebanon in 1982. There is more imagery and body language in all of that than there is substance...
...aired also in Philadelphia and Washington. Turn him on, and odds are you can't gulp down your morning coffee before you hear him say "penis." Last year, in the guise of his comic superhero Fartman, he placed a call to Iran and mercilessly berated the poor Shi'ite who picked up the phone. Fans of shock-jock jokery highly prize this rude dude. Trouble is, anyone scanning the radio dial can accidentally alight on his malice. You can't put a lockbox on a radio...
...Polhill was released two weeks ago, a chorus of calls has gone up for a reciprocal gesture from Washington, something that might promote more releases. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said it was now the West's "turn" and suggested that the U.S. press Israel to release Shi'ite Arabs from its prisons. Even Democrat Lee Hamilton, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East, recommended "some kind of gesture...
...contradictory signals from Congress. Last week the House of Representatives joined the Senate in a resolution supporting an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's capital. This is not official U.S. policy, and the congressional resolution is not binding on the Administration. Even so, it allowed Hussein Musawi, a Lebanese Shi'ite leader, to score a point that might become an excuse for a delay in freeing more of the captives, by asking why the release of one hostage should be met with "such a monumentally ill-intentioned response...
...little leverage on this process, which can break down abruptly for no obvious reason, as was also demonstrated last week. Early on, the air was filled with predictions that another hostage would be freed. But at midweek the movement suddenly stopped dead. Hussein Musawi, a Lebanese Shi'ite leader who was instrumental in Polhill's release, blamed the breakdown on the U.S. House of Representatives for passing a nonbinding resolution urging that a united Jerusalem become the capital of Israel. "The Muslims in Lebanon offered a rose only to get a stone thrown on them," said the bearded cleric...