Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight shortly after takeoff from Zurich on its way to Tel Aviv, killing 47 people, and for a 1972 blast aboard an El Al airliner that landed without casualties. West German police are searching for any connection between this group and the Pan Am tragedy. "The group is pro-Syrian, anti-Arafat and anti-P.L.O.," contends a U.S. State Department fact sheet. "It has strong ties to Syria, although Libya has also long supported...
...Arab states long pledged to the P.L.O., the U.S. move vindicated a trend they have encouraged in recent years: greater moderation and realism on the part of Palestinian nationalists. Even George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh, leaders of two notoriously radical pro-Syrian factions within the P.L.O., hailed the American decision as a triumph for the intifadeh. But the renegade group of Abu Musa issued a veiled threat. "We fully reject the Arafat concessions and will prove our stand practically, in a way that neither Israel nor the United States would expect," said a spokesman in Damascus...
...smiling farewell to Mithileshwar Singh, 60, an Indian-born business professor who had lived in the U.S. for 18 years before moving to Beirut. Sure enough, shortly after 10 p.m. last Monday his captors dropped off Singh in front of the former Kuwait embassy in southern Beirut. Placed under Syrian guard, he was quickly taken to Damascus and turned over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian. "The treatment was better than I expected," said Singh, a diabetic who was examined twice a week by a doctor during his captivity. "But there is no substitute for freedom in this world...
Despite Singh's American ties, moreover, he remains a citizen of India and may have been something of an embarrassment to his captors. The U.S. State Department at first hoped that at least one more of the academic prisoners would be set free, largely because Syrian officials promised that "an American" would be coming out of Beirut. When none appeared, some State Department hostage experts concluded that no further prisoners are likely to be released until a new Administration comes to power. In Paris former Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr claimed that secret arms-for-hostages negotiations were taking place between...
...Rourke pops up in the middle of Beirut's factional bloodlettings, Israel's civil strife and South Korea's ritualized clashes between students and police. The camouflage uniforms of Syrian commandos are peach and purple, which "must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses." On Sandinistas as an attraction for junketeers: "There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts...