Word: shies
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Waite vanished on Tuesday into secret enclaves controlled by the Shi'ite terrorist group known as Islamic Jihad, or Holy War. Islamic Jihad is thought to be holding U.S. Hostages Thomas Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at American University, and Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press. But when Waite, the towering (6 ft. 7 in.) envoy of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, failed to reemerge by early this week after five days of talks, fears grew that he might have become a kidnap victim himself...
...Frenchmen, two Britons, an Italian, an Irishman, a South Korean and a Saudi Arabian. Last week Vice President George Bush confirmed that another American hostage, CIA Beirut Station Chief William Buckley, was killed last year by his captors. Anderson and Sutherland were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three other Americans, Joseph Cicippio, Frank Reed and Edward Tracy, are said to be held by groups called...
...amassed at least 650,000 troops, is the port city of Basra (pop. 1 million). Iranian strategists hope that the fall of the city would lead to the collapse of Saddam Hussein and the creation of an Iranian-style Islamic republic. Basra, like Iran itself, is inhabited mainly by Shi'ite Muslims...
...chief rival is Montazeri, who has known Khomeini for at least 40 years and whose power base is the vast network of clerics who exert enormous influence over the population. It is widely believed that Montazeri's aides maintain close contacts with the Lebanese Shi'ite captors of the American hostages and that his militant supporters worked to block the efforts of Rafsanjani to trade arms for the captives held in Lebanon. According to this theory, Rafsanjani retaliated by arresting Hashemi and his associates on a variety of charges, and the hard-liners in turn put an end to Rafsanjani...
...Iranian Shi'ites had ample reason for making a Yuletide gesture to Paris. And for future negotiations, they still have four French hostages, as well as four Americans, whom they can use as bargaining chips. "Once again, therefore," noted the influential French daily Le Monde, "it is time to be joyful and indignant at the same time...