Word: shying
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...only bit of luck Hill would know for the next 17 days. The flight he boarded, along with 144 other passengers, most of them Americans, was TWA 847, which was hijacked shortly after takeoff by two Arab gunmen demanding the release of 700 Shi'ites from Israeli custody. A few days later, as Hill, 57, waited anxiously with seven other American hostages in a house four miles south of Beirut, his keepers, who belonged to Lebanon's Amal militia, brought the prisoners some of the baggage from the plane's hold. "Luckily, my suitcase was among the bags delivered...
Once again, Nehme Yafet Street in West Beirut was a battleground. Gunmen from rival Shi'ite Muslim and Druze militias crouched in doorways and fired bursts from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades into the darkness. Four floors above the fierce firefight, Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was trapped with staff members of the Associated Press. A giant of a man, who stands 6 ft. 7 in. and weighs 258 lbs., the bearded Waite, 46, was in Beirut to seek the release of four of the American hostages held by Muslim extremists. As bullets chipped...
...second visit to Beirut in less than a week--Waite said, he had met with the kidnapers twice at secret locations in the city. Waite said he was satisfied "beyond all doubt" that he was dealing with the real kidnapers, believed to be members of Islamic Jihad, a shadowy Shi'ite Muslim extremist movement. "The situation remains very dangerous," he emphasized. "False steps, however well intentioned, that interfere with the process I have started could end in disaster...
Though he has met with American officials over the past two weeks, it is not yet clear whether Waite has anything of substance to offer the kidnapers in exchange for their freeing the Americans. The captors have continued to demand as a quid pro quo the release of 17 Shi'ites jailed in Kuwait for terrorist attacks on the French and American embassies and other installations. So far, the U.S. and Kuwait have been unwilling to consider a deal...
...routine patrol in the Bekaa Valley, Israeli F-15s shot down two threatening Syrian MiG-23Ss over Syrian territory. In West Beirut, tanks and rockets were being used in the bitter fighting between the Druze militia of Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and its erstwhile ally, the Shi'ite Amal militia, headed by Nabih Berri. By Friday, police estimated that 44 people had been killed and 200 wounded...