Word: shied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...background, saying nothing about the key role he had played in securing the captives' release. As the point man of U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's seven-month campaign to resolve the hostage crisis, Picco had engaged in a series of daunting covert missions to Shi'ite strongholds in Lebanon to bargain with the captors. At times he disappeared from sight for days...
...released in Beirut last week, and once again the process followed a familiar pattern. One of the pro-Iranian Lebanese groups provided new evidence concerning the fate of one of the five Israeli soldiers still unaccounted for in Lebanon. Jerusalem responded by ordering the release of 15 Lebanese Shi'ite prisoners. That gesture, in turn, led to the freeing of Turner, a former mathematics professor who had been held for four years and nine months...
...most egregious case of this preference for dictators, particularly for their ability to bring "stability" to those parts of the world deemed * too primitive to tolerate democracy, is Saddam Hussein. For it was Bush who saved Saddam. In the crucial days after the gulf war, when the Shi'ite south and the Kurdish north were in revolt, Saddam was hanging by a thread. The Administration could easily have tipped the balance against him. It chose not to. It stayed its hand -- muted its threats and grounded its aircraft -- in the name of stability and the unity of the Iraqi state...
...Shi'ite fundamentalists are down to a handful of Western hostages, and hope is growing that there will soon be none. Years have passed since innocent air travelers were massacred in a departure lounge or held at gunpoint for days on a baking tarmac. No truck bombs have created havoc for many months. Is it safe to conclude that the tide has turned, that terrorism is going out of style...
...name, Ja'afer Dhaieh Ja'afer, is little known even in scientific circles, but U.S. intelligence sources have identified the Iraqi-born physicist as his country's version of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Ja'afer, a Shi'ite Muslim, is an outspoken human-rights advocate who has been jailed for his protests against Saddam Hussein's oppression. Yet he has been honing his country's nuclear capabilities since the early 1960s. He directed operations at the Osirak reactor until an Israeli raid destroyed it in 1981, and he later served as senior technician for the Tarmiya and Sharqat pilot plants, centerpieces...