Word: mithileshwar
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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...
...group's other hostage are Robert Polhill, 53, of New York City; Jesse Turner, 39, of Boise, Idaho; and Mithileshwar Singh, 60, a native of India and resident alien in the United States...
...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...
Police and university officials identified the Americans as Alann Steen, a journalism professor; Jesse Turner, a computer-science instructor; and Robert Polhill, assistant professor of business. The fourth victim was Mithileshwar Singh, chairman of the business department...