Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start, Reagan was full of defiance about the sale of U.S. missiles to Iran. That effort, obviously aimed at winning the release of American hostages in Lebanon, had been an embarrassing violation of his repeated pledges never / to negotiate with terrorist regimes, but Reagan simply denied it. "We did not -- repeat, did not -- trade weapons or anything else for hostages," he said. After a three-month investigation, however, a presidential review board headed by former Texas Senator John Tower found that the "initiative became in fact a series of arms-for-hostages deals...
Chirac faced relatively mild criticism from the opposition Socialists, who were reluctant to argue with what looked like success. If he manages to win the release of the three remaining Frenchmen held in Lebanon, he will be a hero to many of his countrymen and will thus improve his chances in next spring's presidential elections. But the Premier's high-risk dealings with Tehran could backfire if there is an Iranian double cross. As for France's allies, they were nervously wondering last week just what kind of deal, if any, Chirac had cut with Iran...
...contraption looked like a giant red-and-white kite as it purred across Israel's northern border from Lebanon. Powered by a lawn mower-size engine and a small propeller, the hang glider whirred its way three miles into Israel. Israeli soldiers posted in south Lebanon heard the strange vehicle, but the helicopter gunships dispatched to identify the intruder could not find it. Finally, the hang glider landed with a thud in a field of thistles just north of the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona...
...intruder, whom even Israeli soldiers credited with great skill, was apparently one of two Palestinians dispatched on the suicide mission. The second landed his glider in southern Lebanon in an attempt to evade gunfire from Israeli security forces, who later tracked him down and killed...
...Revolutionary Justice Organization still holds Americans Joseph Cicippio, 57, and Edward Tracy, 57, but there was no indication that they or any of the 19 other hostages, including six more Americans, still held captive in Lebanon would be released soon...