Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American hostages before the Lebanese prisoners were let go. The Administration could rightly argue, too, that Israel was going to free the Lebanese prisoners anyway and that the hijacking only delayed their release. Such subtleties would probably be lost on world opinion, which would see only a straightforward swap. Nonetheless, Israel took a step in that direction Sunday when it announced that it was releasing 31 of the detainees early this week while denying that the gesture had been precipitated by the hostage crisis in Beirut...
...mostly Palestinian prisoners, including 167 convicted terrorists. Though the trade was not a hostage deal, some critics charged that the inclusion of terrorists damaged the credibility of Israel's insistence that it would not bargain with enemies who attack civilians. Amid widespread feeling that another such swap would completely undermine the no-deal rule, some 50,000 Israelis staged an angry protest march in downtown Tel Aviv. Some carried signs urging Peres not to free the detainees under any circumstances. Jerusalem is also enmeshed in a controversy over the legality under which the Shi'ite detainees were brought to Israel...
...from government moderates like Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, the Foreign Minister who had the temerity to bargain with "the Great Satan." Trying to avoid a similar fate, Berri threatened to "wash his hands" of the whole affair and turn the hostages over to their original hijackers unless the U.S. arranged a "swap" with the Israelis...
...largest East-West spy swap since World War II, the result of talks among six nations: the U.S., East and West Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Negotiations began after Polish Spy Marian Zacharski was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 for buying classified documents from a Hughes Aircraft Co. radar engineer. Poland let the U.S. know it wanted him back. In 1983 Alfred Zehe, a Dresden physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer...
...swap occurred while Washington was preoccupied with the Walker spy scandal. "We considered the awkward timing," said a senior U.S. diplomat. "But we felt this was sufficiently different so we could go forward. Besides, it had been so painstaking to put together...