Word: ites
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even as Hussein was delivering the speech that ended his peace overture, more fighting was going on 100 miles to the northwest. Early last week a Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist group called the Islamic Resistance Front, which is dominated by the Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), attacked a small Israeli convoy in southern Lebanon and kidnaped two wounded Israeli soldiers. Within hours, some 1,200 Israeli troops pounded across the border in their biggest operation since their army withdrew from southern Lebanon last June. The mission: not only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root...
...Lebanese border was safer than it had been for years. With the support of only a few hundred Israeli soldiers, the Israeli-backed, predominantly Christian South Lebanon Army militia has been notably effective in preventing Palestinian-inspired attacks across the Israeli frontier. At the same time, the mainstream Shi'ite Amal militia in southern Lebanon has not opposed Israeli efforts to keep down the level of P.L.O. activity, but it cannot afford to risk a confrontation with Hizballah, which has a considerable following among the Shi'ite Muslims of the south...
Intelligence and diplomatic sources in France and the Middle East believe the bombings are a new attempt by Shi'ite terror groups to pressure the French government into releasing imprisoned terrorists in exchange for four Frenchmen kidnaped last year in Beirut. The terrorist attacks did nothing to improve the prospects for the European tourist industry. American bookings have fallen off so sharply in some countries that one Greek tourism official called it a "biblical catastrophe...
...Hobeika, who fled to Paris and then to Damascus. The fight stems from Gemayel's rejection of a Syrian-brokered agreement that was supposed to have brought an end to Lebanon's eleven-year-long civil war. The accord was signed by leaders of Lebanon's Druze and Shi'ite Muslim militias and even by Hobeika, but was turned down by Gemayel because it would have reduced the Christian community's political power. The enraged Syrians told Gemayel, following his eleventh meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, "There will not be a twelfth summit." Renewed fighting immediately broke...
...view, it was crucial to keep the Achille Lauro from docking anywhere. Seared into the memory of Administration officials was last June's TWA hijacking ordeal. When the captured jetliner was allowed to land at Beirut airport, its Shi'ite hijackers were able to disperse their 37 hostages into the surrounding urban slums, dragging out the kidnaping drama for 17 days. This time Administration crisis managers were also thinking that a rescue in international waters would be far easier than one in Syria or Lebanon...