Word: stethem
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...subdued celebration lacked the cathartic fanfare that accompanied the arrival four years ago of the 52 hostages who had been held for 444 days in Iran. One reason was the memory of the American who had come home earlier, Navy Diver Robert Stethem, slain by the original hijackers of TWA Flight 847. "Our joy at your return is substantial," Reagan told the crowd. "But so is our pain at what was done to that one son of America." Shortly before going to Andrews Air Force Base, the President had stopped at Arlington National Cemetery and visited Stethem's freshly sodded...
...five surviving Navy divers of the underwater construction team whose sixth member had been Robbie Stethem decided to spend the holiday the same way they had spent the past few weeks: together. The intensive training and small size of their unit makes for ready camaraderie, but Stethem's murder had brought them even closer. With their wives, they went on a secluded picnic in Norfolk, Va., not far from the base where all had trained...
...particularly jubilant Fourth of July week, the celebrations may begin to drown | out the pain that they and their nation have suffered during the 17-day ordeal. But even the more-or-less successful resolution of the hijacking (tending to be forgotten was murdered Navy Diver Robert Stethem) seems unlikely to discourage those who would use hostages as pawns in a political power game and terrorism as a form of propaganda theater. On the contrary, the astonishing adroitness that a militant faction in an anarchic country displayed in monopolizing world attention, in effect holding Washington and much of the American...
...kind of terrorist talk-show host was Ali Hamdan, a well-groomed representative of the Lebanese Amal, the mainstream Shi'ite faction that had in effect hijacked the hostages from their original hijackers, the two brutal gunmen who had seized TWA's Flight 847 and murdered Navy Diver Robert Stethem. The only glitch in this presentation occurred when reporters and cameramen got into a shoving match as they jockeyed for position. Quickly, the Shi'ite guards hustled their prizes from the crowded room in the Beirut airport, waving pistols and cuffing a few reporters for good measure. When the press...
...original hijackers, believed to be free- lancers related to Shi'ites languishing in the Israeli prison camps. With Berri's intercession, the atmosphere became calmer. His men were far more restrained than the original hijackers, who had roughed up a number of passengers and brutally beaten Navy Man Stethem before putting a bullet between his eyes...