Word: shying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sealed envelopes at the offices of two West Beirut newspapers before he disappeared into the lawless night. The news: one of the American hostages in Lebanon, Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, 51, a Roman Catholic priest from Joliet, Ill., was about to be released by Islamic Jihad, the shadowy Shi'ite Muslim terrorist group that had abducted him in January 1985. His captors claimed that Jenco, who suffers from a heart condition, was being freed because of "deteriorating health" and released photos of the haggard priest in a red shirt. But their hostage seemed reasonably fit when found by Lebanese police...
Donahue's captivity was not related to that of five other Americans abducted in 1984 and 1985 by Islamic Jihad, a fanatical Shi'ite Muslim group...
...foreign or the tough are not your cup of tea, the Square does have the expensive and well-groomed. The block right across the street from the Kennedy School of Government will convince you that the yuppie gene is dominant. The Shays Wine Bar--the newest shi-shi place to toss down at Lafite Rothschild or two--and the Boathouse Bar--a tradition-laden drinking place--attract the upwardly mobile like an American Express gold card. If you want to drink here make sure you're well dressed or they will laugh at your I.D. even...
...would replace Iran as a source of inexpensive oil to Syria. By brokering the deal, King Hussein would gain Iraqi support in his drive to undermine Arafat and isolate the P.L.O. In time, the shifting alliances might also help ease the situation in Lebanon, where fighting last week between Shi'ite Muslims and Palestinians was particularly brutal. The Shi'ites launched the offensive in mid-May in an effort to prevent the P.L.O. from re-establishing the Lebanese power base it lost...
Paris 1986: Surprise! Shi Peipu was a male transvestite who somehow managed to perpetrate a 19-year hoax on the unsuspecting Boursicot by faking femininity and pregnancy and providing a baby boy who had been bought from a doctor in the Xinjiang region. Boursicot claimed that he did not discover the truth until he was arrested by French intelligence agents on charges of espionage. After hearing the strange case, seven judges last week sentenced both the hapless accountant and the former dancer to six years in prison. Their "son," Shi Dudu, now 20, was in the Paris courtroom...