Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon granted monthly "imminent danger" pay bonuses to 10,000 U.S. service members on duty in the Persian Gulf area. Although the decision raised hackles among members of both the House and Senate, the Administration drew a fine distinction. The $110 bonus is justified by the threat of terrorist attack, it claimed, not military hostilities. National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci pointed out that the bonuses have been paid under similar circumstances to service personnel in Lebanon and El Salvador...
...friend, Ali Osseiran, 40, the son of Lebanon's Defense Minister, when the pair suddenly found themselves sandwiched between two cars filled with armed men. The kidnapers were presumed to be members of the radical, pro-Iranian Hizballah (Party of God), the organization linked to a series of spectacular terrorist acts. They released Osseiran and his bodyguard-driver a week later, but kept Glass captive. Significantly, Glass's abduction was the first since Syrian troops had arrived in February in an attempt to restore order. The kidnaping was thus a personal affront to President Assad, who had vowed that...
...efforts to free Glass, Washington announced last week that U.S. Ambassador William Eagleton would soon be returning to his post in Damascus for the first time in nine months. The U.S. had been particularly pleased that Syria had decided in June to shut down the Damascus office of Palestinian Terrorist Leader Abu Nidal. Given the degree of pressure that Syria was obviously exerting on his behalf, Glass speculated in an interview on ABC's Nightline that his release might have already been in the works and that "my escape may simply have jumped the gun by a few days...
...disabled by the blast. Armed men approach the car, clearly intending harm to its passengers. Ryan singlehanded puts a stop to this nefariousness, suffering a shoulder wound in the process. Next morning in the hospital, he learns that he has rescued the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack by the U.L.A., a Maoist offshoot of the Irish Republican Army...
...Iranian pilgrims in Mecca, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini launched four days of war games in the strait and loudly promised to settle the score. Late last week an explosion at an Aramco gas plant on the Saudi Arabian coast raised fears that Iran was stepping up its campaign of terrorist subversion against its gulf neighbors. Some 20 workers were killed. Earlier, Iranian officials paid lip service to a United Nations Security Council resolution that called for an end to the Iran- Iraq war. Iran's U.N. Ambassador, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, declared that Iran would cooperate with peace efforts, but noted that...