Word: lebanons
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Another American hostage, Jesse Turner, 44, was released in Beirut last week, and once again the process followed a familiar pattern. One of the pro-Iranian Lebanese groups provided new evidence concerning the fate of one of the five Israeli soldiers still unaccounted for in Lebanon. Jerusalem responded by ordering the release of 15 Lebanese Shi'ite prisoners. That gesture, in turn, led to the freeing of Turner, a former mathematics professor who had been held for four years and nine months...
...maneuvering was under way in Madrid, Israeli jets bombed a stronghold of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, or Party of God, in southern Lebanon, Lebanese authorities said...
...Lebanon and Egypt, thousands of hard-line Muslims demonstrated against the Madrid talks and some in Cairo chanted "God, kill all the Jews!" A senior Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Musavi Ardebili, called on Arabs to overthrow their leaders for negotiating with Israel...
Signaling its willingness to participate in bilateral talks, Israel appointed the heads of delegations to negotiate separately with Syria, Lebanon and the Jordanian-Palestinian team...
...conference is expected to break up into three sets of bilateral talks between Israel and Syria, Lebanon, and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation...