Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Israel's Defense Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, last week as his government completed the most controversial prisoner exchange in the country's history. The swap was lopsided: 1,150 Palestinians and Lebanese, including scores of convicted terrorists, for three Israeli prisoners of war captured in Lebanon in 1982. It involved complex arrangements, took almost 24 hours to accomplish, and spanned half a dozen cities and towns in the Middle East and Western Europe. And it occurred only shortly before Israel's national unity government, headed by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, quietly began withdrawing the last army units from Lebanon, thereby...
...make it very difficult to counter Jewish extremist demands." Others argued that the release would make it harder for Israel to maintain its traditional position that there can be no negotiations with terrorists and no compromise with terrorism. But to Peres and his Labor Party colleagues, the prisoner swap was an essential step in ending the war in Lebanon and in living up to another long-standing policy: that Israel will do everything in its power to bring its POWs home. Insisted Defense Minister Rabin: "I don't feel any moral right to say to a captured soldier...
...assumed in Washington that some of the missing Americans are being held by pro-Iranian Lebanese Shi'ite groups that hope to swap their prisoners for 19 militant Islamic fundamentalists imprisoned in Kuwait. With that in mind, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz recently sent a message through the Swiss government warning Iran that Washington would not be slow to retaliate should an American captive be killed...
...cannot afford to scrap their machines or donate them to schools as tax deductions often turn to fellow users for comfort and support. As a result, hundreds of orphan-user groups have sprung up across the U.S., holding meetings in company cafeterias, community centers, classrooms and dens. Members swap tips on software, sources for ever scarcer accessories, and techniques for getting the most out of their discontinued machines...
Rebuffed by Alison and bummed by Ivy life in general, Gib, tantalized by his best friend lance's tales of a sexual sure thing ("Every relationship begins with a one-night stand") decides to head for the robust UCIA beauty. Since Alison is on her way to swap law articles with her similarly situated boy friend, the pair end up hitching their way to California together, a la It Happened One Night. Somewhere between playing a madman psychotic to scare a lecherous truck driver off of Alison and trying to identify the three categories of junk food. John Cusack manages...