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...kidnaped last year while serving as head of an observer team attached to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon. His captors claimed they killed him in retaliation for Israel's seizure of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a presumed leader of Shi'ite Hizballah terrorists, during a raid into southern Lebanon. U.S. officials now believe, however, that Higgins had been dead for some time, then used for his kidnapers' macabre display. No matter which terrible theory turns out to be true, the image of Higgins' body was a brutal reminder that, ten years after the seizure of hostages at the American...
...latest crisis was sparked by events in Lebanon that dramatized the difference between the Israeli and American responses to hostage taking. On July 28, two dozen Israeli commandos staged a daring raid into the southern Lebanese village of Jibchit. Their goal was to seize Obeid, 32, whom the Israelis identify as a spiritual and military leader of the Shi'ite fundamentalist Hizballah (Party of God), a group with close ties to Iran that is holding most of the Western hostages. The Israelis say they wanted Obeid as a bargaining chip to gain release of three Israeli military men taken prisoner...
...part, Paramount dropped its $200-a-share hostile bid for Time after the supreme court ruling. The decision upheld Allen's finding that Time's management acted properly when it responded to Paramount's raid by converting the Time-Warner deal from a stock swap, which required shareholder approval, to a leveraged purchase, which needed no such vote. Paramount Chairman Martin Davis said he would "continue aggressively to build our core business in publishing and entertainment." Last week Paramount agreed to sell its financial-services subsidiary, Associates First Capital, to Ford Motor for $3.35 billion, which would give the communications...
...admitted that an agent "discarded" many internal documents concerning an IRS raid in 1986 that Saranow initiated against Guess's nemesis, Jordache Enterprises. The Justice Department is investigating the incident...
...precision raid. Israeli commandos landed by helicopter outside the southern Lebanese town of Gibchite early Friday morning. They slipped through the dark to their target: an apartment on the eastern edge of town belonging to Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, chief military commander of the southern Lebanese wing of Hizballah (Party of God), the fundamentalist Shi'ite group with close ties to Iran. The Israelis burst in, locked up Obeid's wife and children, and carried Obeid and two assistants off to Israel...