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Despite the conflicting signals, the outlines of a deal began to emerge. The pivotal player was Israel, which insisted on a strict accounting of the whereabouts of seven missing servicemen but promised to be "very flexible" about the terms for trading its Arab prisoners in southern Lebanon that would in turn spring the release of the Western captives. Jerusalem offered a two- step plan. In phase one, Israel would release about 50 Shi'ites after receiving a full report on its soldiers, verifiable by either videotape or international observers. The second stage would see the release of the remaining...
...where are the Israeli soldiers? How many of them are still alive? And whose answers to those questions can be trusted? Hizballah asserted last week that three of the servicemen are still alive. A Westerner who has served as an intermediary in hostage negotiations said he believed that only airman Ron Arad has survived his captivity. When those contradictory statements were coupled with the disparate claims emanating from Iran and Syria about the Israeli soldiers, the overriding impression was that no one source could account authoritatively for all seven...
...hunt down soldiers at gay and lesbian bars. Interrogations can last 12 hours, during which suspects are threatened with exposure to their parents, dishonorable discharge, and in the case of some lesbians, loss of custody of their children. Many suspects are pressured to reveal the names of other gay servicemen and -women. The interrogators, says Bridget Wilson of the Military Law Task Force in San Diego, which helps defend gay and lesbian service members, "are routinely dishonest, routinely incompetent and routinely lie to and terrorize service members in an attempt to get them to name other names...
...sightings of Americans in Asian jungles, often from refugees or anti-communist guerrilla bands seeking money and publicity from the U.S. The production of faked pictures, forged letters, dog tags, even bones has become a cottage industry in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Veterans' groups and families of missing servicemen have offered large rewards for information, but none of the thousands of reported sightings and pictures has ever turned up a surviving American prisoner...
...cloudless Friday afternoon, several thousand servicemen gathered at Travis Air Force Base northeast of San Francisco to welcome back 430 crewmen from the U.S.N.S. Mercy, a onetime supertanker converted into a hospital ship. (A skeleton crew will sail the Mercy home from the gulf, arriving in 28 days.) The crewmen were cheered at Travis, then rode in buses to the Navy's Oak Knoll Hospital in Oakland with a motorcycle police escort...