Word: shying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said it condemned "any moves that may threaten the lives of innocent passengers." But in Lebanon, several terrorist groups, including the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the hijacking. One survivor of the crash reported that the terrorists spoke with southern Lebanese accents, implying that they were indeed Shi'ite fundamentalists loyal to Khomeini...
...region's fierce factionalism was once again being felt in unstable Lebanon. On Christmas Day a Libyan diplomat based in neighboring Syria, Mosbah Mohammed Gharibi, was killed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley when gunmen raked his car with machine-gun fire. The Bekaa is a ! stronghold of Lebanese Shi'ites who still blame Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the 1978 disappearance and possible murder of their spiritual leader, Imam Moussa Sadr. The assumption in Beirut was that the diplomat's killing was the latest in a series of retaliatory strikes by the Lebanese Shi'ites at their Libyan enemies...
...another grim Christmas Eve in West Beirut, a black Mercedes cruised through the seaside district of Ramlet al Baida and halted 200 yards from the Beau Rivage Hotel. Out stepped French TV Journalist Aurel Cornea, 54, who had been kidnaped 9 1/2 months earlier -- along with three colleagues -- by Shi'ite terrorists of the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization. As his captors sped off, the dazed sound technician stumbled to the hotel, where French diplomats were waiting...
...Cambridge-based area chapter of Amnesty International plans to hold a reception at the Boston Children's Museum, featuring films on abuses in Chile and Sri Lanka. Two former "prisoners of conscience," Victor Davidof of the Soviet Union and Lu-Shi Lin of Taiwan, are scheduled to speak...
...expansion of Iranian-inspired Islamic fanaticism. But an outright Iranian victory could prove a mixed blessing. Moreover, just as the Tehran arms deal has backfired on the Reagan Administration, it might also turn out to be detrimental to Israel, for some of the weapons could be channeled to Shi'ite Muslim soldiers fighting Israeli troops in Lebanon...