Word: mithileshwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostage release. First came a picture of two of the four professors abducted 20 months ago from Beirut University College, along with a message that one of the four would be freed. Then came a picture of all four, three of them apparently bidding a smiling farewell to Mithileshwar Singh, 60, an Indian-born business professor who had lived in the U.S. for 18 years before moving to Beirut. Sure enough, shortly after 10 p.m. last Monday his captors dropped off Singh in front of the former Kuwait embassy in southern Beirut. Placed under Syrian guard, he was quickly taken...
Spokesman Phyllis Oakley said Mithileshwar Singh, who is a permanent resident of the United States, was in Syrian hands in Beirut and would be taken to Damascus early this morning...
Steen, Turner and two other teachers--Robert Polhill, 53, of New York City, and Mithileshwar Singh, 60, an Indian who is a legal resident alien of the United States--were abducted January 24 from the Beirut: University College campus in west Beirut. Steen, 47, is from Boston, and Turner, 39, from Boise, Idaho...
...next day. "Once again we announce that we will be executed at midnight." Steen issued his stark pronouncement in an open letter last week that was signed as well by fellow U.S. Hostages Robert Polhill and Jesse Turner. Terrorists were threatening to kill the Americans and Indian National Mithileshwar Singh, also a Beirut University College professor, unless Israel released 400 imprisoned Arabs by the following midnight. But as the deadline expired, the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which holds the four captives, said it would spare their lives "until further notice...
...released a photo showing Hostage Robert Polhill, 52, an accounting lecturer from New York, with automatic weapons aimed at his head. The other captives: Alann Steen, 47, a journalism instructor who previously taught at California's Humboldt State University; Jesse Jonathan Turner, 39, a mathematics professor from Boise; and Mithileshwar Singh, chairman of the business-studies division. The kidnapings set off a wave of student protests that sent thousands of demonstrators into the streets of Beirut...