Word: shying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nervous public mood was reflected in the headlines that hit newsstands. PARIS PANIC! screamed Le Matin. PARIS-BEIRUT, read Le Parisien Libere. Over the next few days the parallel with the Middle East nightmare was eerily driven home as militant Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims fired on French peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon, and Colonel Christian Goutierre, 54, the French military attache in Beirut, was gunned down. Responsibility for the assassination was claimed by the Revenge and Justice Front, a group that has no known links to the C.S.P.P.A...
...course of the hijacking, an anonymous Arab called a Western news agency office in Nicosia, Cyprus, and claimed responsibility for the Libyan Revolutionary Cells, a previously unknown group. Denials came almost instantaneously from Radio Tripoli and from Gaddafi, who was attending the nonaligned conference in Zimbabwe. Next, an obscure Shi'ite organization calling itself Jundullah, or Soldiers of God, announced it was responsible. Most Western intelligence agencies were skeptical...
...group of radical Lebanese Shi'ites in June 1985 commandeered the plane after it had departed from Athens, and demanded the release of about 700 comrades held by Israel. The hijackers freed some hostages as the Boeing 727 shuttled between Lebanon and Algeria before setting down at the Beirut airport. There the hijackers and their captives were guarded by Shi'ite security forces, and a military rescue operation was ruled out. After the hijackers dispersed the remaining hostages to secret locations in Beirut, complex negotiations among the U.S., Israel and Syria led to the release of the Shi'ite prisoners...
...Moderate Shi'ites share that goal with the Israelis, but pressure from their extremist brothers prevents them from publicly admitting it. Instead, elements of Amal have joined with more radical coreligionists in the self-defeating policy of attacking the Israeli security forces. Hizballah is actively helping the P.L.O. re-establish itself on Israel's northern border. Says a P.L.O. official: "We have a very important objective in common with Hizballah: to fight Israel...
Israeli officials have proposed sharing security responsibilities in southern Lebanon with Amal, on condition that the Shi'ites guarantee the safety of the northern Israeli settlements. Scoffs Daoud Daoud, the independent-minded Amal military chief in the south: "A nation protects its security from inside its own borders, not from inside someone else's." The dilemma of the moderate Shi'ites is stark: Israel will not trust them, and radicals in their ranks will reject any sort of cooperative effort with Israel when their fragile is threatened. After last week's clash with the French U.N. troops, both sides issued...