Word: prisoners
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...encouraged Berri to take a public role in mediating the crisis. On the first day of the hijacking, Berri had put a dozen armed Amal militiamen aboard the plane to take control from the original hijackers, believed to be free- lancers related to Shi'ites languishing in the Israeli prison camps. With Berri's intercession, the atmosphere became calmer. His men were far more restrained than the original hijackers, who had roughed up a number of passengers and brutally beaten Navy Man Stethem before putting a bullet between his eyes...
...plus Delta operatives are highly trained, but they have been used only twice against terrorists -- both times unsuccessfully. The 1980 Iranian hostage-rescue attempt was aborted in the desert when two helicopters broke down; during the invasion of Grenada the Delta commandos failed to reach the Richmond Hill prison, where they were supposed to rescue political prisoners, and reportedly sustained casualties (the number and details remain classified). Though intended primarily to rescue hostages from terrorists, the Delta Force could presumably be used in a retaliatory attack, ferreting out and killing terrorists in their lairs...
...symbol of longing for the return of the American hostages taken by Iran in 1979. It comes from Tony Orlando's 1973 hit pop tune, Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Round the Old Oak Tree), based on a story about the homecoming of a Civil War soldier from prison...
...Gauthe finds himself at the center of a scandal that has shaken his community and may lead to his imprisonment. This fall he is expected to face trial on 34 criminal counts involving sexual abuse of boys. The worst charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison at hard labor. Gauthe, 40, who was suspended from his priestly functions in 1983, is pleading not guilty on grounds of insanity. In 1984, in depositions for ten civil suits brought by the victims' families, Gauthe said that he had committed sexual acts with 35 or more boys over eleven years...
Among the current cases: Father Mel Baltazar of Boise was sentenced to seven years in prison last January for lewd conduct with a 15-year-old boy. Father David Boyea of White Lake, Wis., goes on trial this month on three felony charges involving minor boys. Rhode Island Priest P. Henry Leech is scheduled for an August trial on eight such charges, and in that same state Priest William O'Connell, who was already facing 24 charges relating to perhaps twelve or more youths, was arraigned last week on two additional counts. In San Diego, Monsignor Rudolph Galindo, former rector...