Word: lebanons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cold day in hell when Terry Anderson won his freedom at last. The snow fell hard in Mount Lebanon as he spent the last 24 hours pacing in his cell, playing solitaire by candlelight and listening to the BBC broadcast stories of his progress on the road to Damascus. Those last hours passed with infernal slowness; his captors continued to argue over whether to let him go at all. But when at last the path to freedom cleared, he appeared to a world captured in a camera lens, and all was finally well...
...nothing about the key role he had played in securing the captives' release. As the point man of U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's seven-month campaign to resolve the hostage crisis, Picco had engaged in a series of daunting covert missions to Shi'ite strongholds in Lebanon to bargain with the captors. At times he disappeared from sight for days...
With Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians lined around the table, Israel was counting on the United States to be, if not sympathetic to her longtime ally, at least an honest broker in the peace negotiations. The Bush administration response represents the first time in a while that Israel not only has to second guess American intentions, but also the president's fundamental support...
Waite was referring to his captors' pledge to free by the end of November the three remaining American hostages, among them journalist Terry Anderson. There seemed great promise that the hostage drama was coming to an end. In Lebanon, Hizballah said the fate of the remaining Western hostages was no longer linked to freedom for 300-odd Arab prisoners held by Israel's proxy militia in south Lebanon. An announcement by U.S. officials that Washington and Tehran were nearing agreement on payment of $275 million owed to Iran for undelivered military equipment dating back to 1979 sweetened the prospect...
Britain's hostage ordeal ended with the return of Waite, the high-profile envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the last British captive in Lebanon. But as bells joyously tolled his freedom, the homecoming unleashed feverish speculation about the role the U.S. -- and maybe Waite himself -- had played in his capture. Did Waite know of Washington's secret arms dealings? And was he a willing agent, or an unwitting collaborator? Before his capture, Waite denied any knowledge of the U.S. arms-for-hostages scheme...