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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows. Are the Russians going to emerge eventually in a political landscape that looks like Switzerland -- different languages and nationalities coexisting under a government organized to make decisions at the most democratic level possible? Or like Lebanon at its savage worst? Or like someplace that no one has ever seen before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviet Union: Starting at Year Zero | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...values and commitment to the poor and helpless or acting in such a way that they were denying Christian truth. I have a very close relationship with the Prime Minister ((John Major)) and the ministers of government. We talk a lot to the Foreign Office about our hostages in Lebanon and about other things because the Anglican Communion is very much an international body. We are actually more international than the British government. We've lost our empire, the Commonwealth is in name only, but the Anglican Communion has more than 32 countries, so we've got all these links...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answering The Call of God: GEORGE CAREY | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

Tehran has put in an unconvincing bid for the release of four Iranians who have been missing in Lebanon since the 1982 Israeli invasion. The Lebanese government has steadily maintained that all four are dead. In addition, although Hizballah hinted privately last week that its vague demand for the release of the thousands of Palestinians detained by Israel during the uprising in the occupied territories was just a bargaining ploy that could be dropped, Ahmed Jibril, a radical Palestinian leader with strong ties to Syria, < specifically called for their release. A senior British diplomat warns, "It's impossible to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Let's Do a Deal | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

General Antoine Lahd, commander of the South Lebanon Army militia, weighed in with a requirement that nine of his militiamen held by Hizballah be released or accounted for. Lahd holds the keys to El Khiam prison in southern Lebanon, where Israel detains 350 of the Shi'ites sought by Islamic Jihad -- though Israel would probably make him unlock the door if its soldiers are recovered. Damascus has also put in a bid for the release of an unspecified number of Syrian soldiers it claims were detained by Israel in the Golan Heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Let's Do a Deal | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...Tehran government, which originally organized and subsidized Lebanon's Hizballah, had already been leaning westward, however grudgingly. President Hashemi Rafsanjani wants increased trade, especially from Europe, to help rebuild an economy destroyed by eight years of war with Iraq. By turning away from radicals abroad, he can also undercut his extremist domestic rival, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, Hizballah's godfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Changes Its Spots | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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