Word: shied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selling $800 million a year in war materiel to Iraq, and there are said to be at least 25,000 Egyptian volunteers fighting on the Iraqi side against Iran. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has condemned such acts by moderate Arabs, but, even with his bursts of Iranian-inspired Shi'ite terrorism, he has not stopped them. In Kuwait last week, the government announced that 25 people, including 17 Iraqis, would go on trial beginning Feb. 11 on charges of carrying out bombings against the American and French embassies and other targets in December. At the time it appeared that...
Shortly afterward, an anonymous caller telephoned the French news agency Agence France-Presse and said that the assassination of Kerr had been carried out by members of the Islamic Jihad, the same Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group that is believed to have bombed the U.S. and French military headquarters in Beirut last October as well as the Israeli headquarters in Tyre. The caller said that Kerr was "the victim of the American military presence in Beirut," and vowed that "not a single American or Frenchman will remain on this soil...
...bombed a cluster of villages near Baalbek. Beirut radio reported that as many as 100 were killed and 300 wounded. Most of the casualties, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, were civilians. Israeli military officials claimed to have destroyed two bases used by Iranian-supported Shi'ite guerrillas to launch attacks against Israeli troops in southern Lebanon...
...lack of enthusiasm for the idea. Agrees a White House aide: "One thing we won't do is appear to be marching alongside the Lebanese Army." The Syrians and Israelis apparently do not object to the plan, while two key Lebanese factions, the Christian Phalange and the Shi'ite Muslim group known as Amal, have tentatively pledged their support. But Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt, concerned about Lebanese soldiers entering his fief in the Chouf, said the arrangement was "not acceptable," which prompted another bout of last-minute dickering. If the agreement is implemented, the U.S. expects Gemayel...
...nchez, better known as the infamous and long-sought "Carlos," who in 1982 masterminded a previous French train bombing. His Organization of Armed Arab Struggle announced in several phone calls to the press that the bombings were in response to last November's air raids on Shi'ite Muslim barracks in the ancient Lebanese city of Baalbek. At least 39 people died in those raids. But it is also possible that the most recent attacks were the work of the militant Shi'ite Islamic Jihad group. Ten days before the latest bombings, those extremists warned that unless...