Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the drug merchants increasingly brazen, Colombia is slipping into the kind of lawlessness that may someday risk comparison with Lebanon's. Last year most of the 3,000 murders in Medellin had to do with drugs. "Our way of life is being threatened," Bogota Prosecutor Francisco Bernal Castillo told TIME last month. Bernal, still reeling from the shock of the assassination of Hoyos, who had been his superior, was carrying a pistol in his waistband and was accompanied by a bodyguard. Last week Bernal fled to the U.S. after receiving death threats from the Medellin cartel...
...station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...
...time of his capture Higgins, a native of Kentucky and a former aide to ex-U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, was returning from a meeting with a local leader of the Shi'ite Amal militia. The incident was a major embarrassment for Amal Leader Nabih Berri, Lebanon's Justice Minister. Amal, along with U.N. peacekeeping forces, immediately launched a manhunt for Higgins and his abductors...
...Shultz heads for the Middle East to talk about peace. -- A Marine hostage in Lebanon. -- An economic crisis grips Nicaragua...
...subject of Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson--nearly three years in captivity--and the other American hostages in Lebanon arose early in the 30-minute nationally televised question-and-answer session in the White House's East Room...