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...would go beyond the allegations that the Reagan-Bush campaign team delayed the release of Iranian-held American hostages back in 1980 for political gain. The new claims -- unsubstantiated so far -- say that starting in 1986, George Bush, then Vice President, secretly visited Damascus several times to discuss possible Syrian help in freeing hostages held in Lebanon. But until his 1988 presidential campaign got under way, according to the story, he stonewalled the Syrians, playing for prime campaign timing. Republicans want to get to the bottom of intelligence- community suspicions that the U.S. somehow blew a chance to free Terry...
Washington's embarrassment served as an excuse for Syrian President Hafez Assad to lash out at U.S. Middle East policies. Damascus already has Scud missiles capable of striking Israel. The Scud-Cs believed to be part of the Ho's cargo have a greater range, at more than 300 miles, than the Scud-Bs already in Syria's arsenal, but they would not significantly alter the balance of power in the Middle East. While denying that the Ho was delivering new missiles -- a denial echoed by North Korea -- Assad attacked Washington's efforts to "strip the Arabs of their weapons...
...report also counted 3,641 car bombs, which killed 4,386 people. The toll includes 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers who died in nearly simultaneous truck bombings in 1983. The Lebanese conflict, which ended in 1990 when Syrian forces crushed Christian General Michel Aoun and an Arab League-mediated peace accord took hold, claimed more than twice the number of lives lost by both sides in the five major Arab-Israeli wars since...
Students have made a difference in the past on issues of human rights abuses. In the case of the Syrian Jews there is a lot that needs to be done, and a lot that can be done by students...
...campus that is concerned with securing human rights for people all over the world should take up the cause of Syrian Jews. The American hostages may be out of the Middle East, but we can't stop fighting until the last captives of such oppressive regimes are truly free...