Word: shied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuttle's seven-member crew also successfully launched three communications satellites for various clients before this week's scheduled landing. Ironically, while Shi'ite terrorists held 40 American hostages from a hijacked airliner, one of the satellites the U.S. boosted into orbit (for a $19.2 million fee) is owned by a consortium of 21 Arab nations -- including Lebanon and Syria -- and the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...Beirut, Shi'ite Amal militiamen took 37 American male passengers off the TWA jet hijacked two weeks ago and hid them somewhere in the chaos of the western sector of the city. The triumphant captors brought five of their victims before TV cameras for a news conference, in which the prisoners pleaded that the U.S. not try to rescue them or take any military reprisal lest all the hostages die. At week's end the Shi'ite Party of God staged a rally around the captured jet; 1,000 demonstrators cheered the hijackers and chanted "Death to America...
...unwilling to pile death + on death must be negotiation. Though Reagan has vowed never to make a deal with the terrorists, an American intelligence expert on Lebanon predicts that the U.S. may have no choice but to acquiesce in one. It would involve the release of 776 Lebanese, mostly Shi'ites, who were taken to a prison in Israel by Israeli occupation forces withdrawing from southern Lebanon. The trick would be to avoid making an exchange look like capitulation to terrorism -- for example, by securing the release of the American hostages before the Lebanese prisoners were let go. The Administration...
...Radical Shi'ite factions settled into a virtual viper's nest in Baalbek, an ancient city in the Bekaa Valley 40 miles east of Beirut. There a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, inspired by the Khomeini revolution, sent young Lebanese fanatics out on bottle-smashing sprees in the bars of Beirut, taught them how to rig cars with powerful bombs and prepared them to die for their cause. "Like Khomeini," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer and an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, "these Shi'ite fundamentalists are rejecting the entire Western system...
...Shi'ite extremists, political violence has become a dangerous vogue. "Committing terrorism is like achieving manhood for a Shi'ite," says William Quandt, a Middle East specialist at Washington's Brookings Institution. "Everybody is scrambling to be the most militant...