Word: shies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weir freed at this time? One possible reason might have been the Administration's stepped-up efforts to gain the hostages' freedom since the release two weeks ago of the last of 760 mostly Shi'ite prisoners from Israel's Atlit Prison. These were the prisoners that terrorists had demanded be freed after the hijacking of TWA's Flight 847 in June...
...would provoke retaliation. Last week, after rocket assaults on northern settlements, the death of two Israeli soldiers in a south Lebanon ambush and a string of suicide car-bomb attacks, the country made good its vow. Backed by helicopter gunships and heavy armor, Israeli troops stormed into three Lebanese Shi'ite communities near Israel's border. The primary target was Qabrikha, from where, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, Israel has been attacked by Katyusha rockets. The Israelis ordered residents out of their homes, then conducted house-to-house searches for weapons...
...Hafez Assad sought to extend that influence last month when Lebanese Muslim leaders, meeting in Damascus, drew up a 16-point plan that would increase their political power. Lebanese Christian politicians predictably denounced the Damascus accord, and new bickering broke out between them and Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Shi'ite Amal Leader Nabih Berri. On Aug. 14 a car bomb exploded in a northern Christian enclave. Three days later an even bigger explosive device killed 55 in a suburb of predominantly Christian East Beirut. The Christian radio station Voice of Lebanon blamed the Muslims and promised, "Our revenge will...
...plane from Wiesbaden, West Germany, Allyn Conwell, who had resigned as the group's spokesman, asked Testrake to replace him. A cool, articulate, square-jawed Texan, Conwell had alienated some by expressing "genuine sympathy" for the captors and equating the hostage taking with Israel's detention of hundreds of Shi'ites. Hill, for one, declared that Conwell had been "sucked in." Said an outraged Hill: "I asked him if he was going to carry the Koran and Islamic prayer beads with him to the White House...
...Houston, a seemingly tireless Conwell, an oil-equipment salesman who now resides in Oman, said he had belatedly discovered that he was being criticized for his apparently pro-Shi'ite remarks. He noted reports that the White House had preferred that he not speak at Andrews base and that the President's men were relieved when Captain Testrake was asked to become the new spokesman. Once the hostages were freed, Conwell agreed, it made sense to have the captain act as spokesman...