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...place another note inside a plastic cup. The cops were reluctant, however, to endanger the victims' lives by storming the building. When the missing men had failed to appear two days after the ransom's delivery, the authorities finally resolved to seize the suspects and raid the unguarded warehouse...
...Geneva arms talks, The Day After sharpened the debate between opponents and supporters of the Reagan Administration's weapons policies. On a wider, more superficial level, the movie brought home the terror of nuclear devastation to millions of Americans too young to remember Hiroshima, the air-raid drills of the 1950s or even the jittery days of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis...
While the struggle within the P.L.O. was being played out in Tripoli, a long-awaited act of revenge was taking place in the Bekaa Valley. On Wednesday, the Israelis staged a reprisal raid against the pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslim splinter group, known as Islamic Amal, which is believed responsible for the suicide attacks that killed 28 Israeli soldiers on Nov. 4, as well as 239 American servicemen and 58 French paratroopers on Oct. 23. Four Israeli warplanes, ejecting thermal balloons in their wake in order to confound heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, attacked a training camp...
...undecided about whether the U.S. had more to gain by demonstrating its vengefulness in the face of a terrorist act or by acting with restraint. Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass was quoted by a Lebanese magazine as threatening "kamikaze attacks" on U.S. warships in the event of an American raid on Syrian positions...
...risks. Although the evidence points to a pair of fanatical Shi'ite Muslim splinter groups with ties to Syria and Iran, the U.S. is not certain exactly who gave the orders. Even if the culprits were known, Washington would not be sure how to strike back. A commando raid or air strike against their headquarters in the Lebanese city of Baalbek, for example, could mushroom into a battle with the Syrians, who control that part of the country...