Word: tyre
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...when the posting in Lebanon opened, Higgins was anxious to get back to the field. No rule barred an officer with Higgins' top clearances from taking the job. But eight months after his arrival in Lebanon, he was kidnaped by Hizballah gunmen near the port city of Tyre. His captors, who quickly found out that he had worked for Weinberger, charged him with being a spy. In a videotape released a week after the kidnaping, Higgins appeared to have been physically abused...
...white United Nations station wagon headed south on the coastal highway from the Lebanese town of Tyre. Suddenly, near the village of Ras el-Ein, a ; brown Volvo blocked the road. Gunmen leaped from the car and dragged out the station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...
Reporters in Tyre say the influence of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God, has been growing in the villages. Hezbollah is believed to be the umbrella group for radical Shiite Moslem factions holding most of the foreign hostages in Lebanon...
Higgins was returning from a meeting in Tyre with Abdel Majid Saleh, an Amal political leader in the area, Saleh told reporters. Efforts to free foreign hostages were among their topics, he said...
...source said privately the kidnappers took Higgins to Shabriha, a village half a mile northeast of Tyre...