Word: shying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years French soldiers of the United Nations peacekeeping force and the moderate Shi'ite Amal militia had been friendly. Last week the peace was shattered by the thunder of rocket-propelled grenades and the crack of automatic weapons resounding through the dusty, Amal-controlled village of Marrakeh. Reason: as French guards at a U.N. security checkpoint attempted to disarm a local Amal commander, his bodyguard pulled his own gun. The French responded with a fusillade that killed both Shi'ites. Before long, 100 Amal fighters roared into Marrakeh, their guns blazing away at French positions. By the time Amal Leader...
...still held by the same group: Associated Press Correspondent Terry Anderson, 38, David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. Another American hostage, William Buckley, 58, a U.S. embassy political officer, was reported slain by Shi'ite extremists last October, but his death has not been confirmed. In addition to the Americans, there are seven Frenchmen, two Britons, an Irishman, a South Korean and an Italian who are missing and believed held by Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups...
...Shi'ite extremists who are holding the three Americans are seeking the release of 17 of their kinsmen and allies who are imprisoned in Kuwait for bombing several buildings, including the French and American embassies in 1983. The Administration's position: it will not negotiate with terrorists and will not ask Kuwait to do so. In any case, the Kuwaitis have said they would refuse any such request...
...cycle of sectarian vendettas. No groups claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Christian leaders promptly blamed the East Beirut atrocity on Muslims, charging that they were acting for the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Across town in his West Beirut headquarters, Nabih Berri, the chief of the predominantly Shi'ite Amal militia, ascribed the Barbir bombing to Christian militiamen bent on revenge. More radical Shi'ites claimed that the Christian perpetrators were acting as "lackeys of Israel...
...same time, however, Hassan enraged the more radical Arab states. Syria broke off diplomatic relations. In West Beirut, 2,000 members of Hizballah, a militant Shi'ite Muslim faction, stormed the Moroccan embassy, routed its staff and caused extensive damage...