Word: ites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebration, however, was mixed with restraint, as if the country understood that it had won a small victory in a larger war with no end yet in sight. Late last week another skirmish in that war may have taken place. In | Beirut, the Shi'ite terrorist group known as Islamic Jihad distributed blurred photographs purporting to show the body of U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, kidnaped 18 months ago. The State Department was skeptical of the claim...
...report of Buckley's death was still unconfirmed at week's end, but it dashed any hopes that he and five other Americans held hostage by Shi'ite extremists might soon be released unharmed. The announcement came only five days after the U.S.S.R. for the first time fell victim to Beirut's endemic lawlessness. Terrorists abducted four Soviet diplomats from their cars in separate West Beirut incidents and later shot one of them dead. It was the first confirmed killing among the more than 30 foreigners kidnaped in Beirut for political reasons in the past 18 months. At least...
...Weir freed at this time? One possible reason might have been the Administration's stepped-up efforts to gain the hostages' freedom since the release two weeks ago of the last of 760 mostly Shi'ite prisoners from Israel's Atlit Prison. These were the prisoners that terrorists had demanded be freed after the hijacking of TWA's Flight 847 in June...
...provoke retaliation. Last week, after rocket assaults on northern settlements, the death of two Israeli soldiers in a south Lebanon ambush and a string of suicide car-bomb attacks, the country made good its vow. Backed by helicopter gunships and heavy armor, Israeli troops stormed into three Lebanese Shi'ite communities near Israel's border. The primary target was Qabrikha, from where, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, Israel has been attacked by Katyusha rockets. The Israelis ordered residents out of their homes, then conducted house-to-house searches for weapons...
...Assad sought to extend that influence last month when Lebanese Muslim leaders, meeting in Damascus, drew up a 16-point plan that would increase their political power. Lebanese Christian politicians predictably denounced the Damascus accord, and new bickering broke out between them and Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Shi'ite Amal Leader Nabih Berri. On Aug. 14 a car bomb exploded in a northern Christian enclave. Three days later an even bigger explosive device killed 55 in a suburb of predominantly Christian East Beirut. The Christian radio station Voice of Lebanon blamed the Muslims and promised, "Our revenge will...