Word: lebanons
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Jackson, who in 1983 traveled to Syria to secure the release of an American pilot who had been shot down over Lebanon, said he has no plans to go to the Middle East to help resolve the current conflict. But he said he intends to stay involved in his role as "a human rights activist...
...world that relies on oil from the gulf now realizes with fresh urgency the importance of restoring a balance of power there. Iran has served as a counterweight to Iraq before, and it could do so again. If Iran were to bring about the release of the hostages in Lebanon, it would be rewarded by a stampede of Western diplomats, bankers, foreign-aid officials and arms merchants beating a path to Tehran...
Israeli spin controllers have their hands full. The government has suffered from a particularly bad public image over the years, thanks to such misadventures as the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the settlement of Israelis in occupied territories, stonewalling on the Middle East peace process and the ironfisted, often brutal, handling of the intifadeh. No wonder the Foreign Ministry launched a public relations campaign about a decade ago intended to package for international consumption upbeat stories on such subjects as Israeli science and medicine. Last week it was revealed that the country's legitimate public relations effort has been paralleled...
...French authorities learned just how laid-back -- and lucrative -- such deliveries can be. Police investigators charged Patrick Schaller, 29, and Pierre Bessonat, 30, two law-enforcement officers stationed in Mulhouse, a town in northeastern France, with using the diplomatic mailbag for the illegal purchase and importation of arms from Lebanon; both formerly held security posts in France's embassy in Beirut. At least a dozen men had been implicated in the arms-trafficking affair, including embassy chief of security Jean- Claude Labourdette, believed to be the operation's kingpin...
Both Morrow and Hamad approached the story well briefed. Hamad, who studied law at Damascus University, has worked for Arab newspapers in Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan, and was a free-lance journalist in Jerusalem before joining TIME's bureau there in 1982. Morrow, who is based in New York City, has visited Israel six times in the past 2 1/2 years. He confesses to painfully divided sympathies: "The Israelis and the Palestinians," he says, "are a kind of moral-political double exposure, two universes set down in the same place...