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Before talking with Assad, Jackson met with Syrian religious figures and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Though the Muslim and Christian leaders opposed Goodman's release, their American visitor made an impassioned plea for mercy. He then persuaded Mahmoud Labadi, a P.L.O. spokesman, to present Jackson's case for freeing Goodman to P.L.O. faction leaders in Damascus. It was they who subsequently urged the Syrians to give up the flyer...
Then Jackson was shuttled to a Damascus military compound. He was the P.O.W.'s second American visitor in a week: Ambassador Robert Paganelli had delivered Goodman a Christmas dinner...
Landry put the Crimson ahead at 11.48, poking in a beautiful behind-the-net feed from Caroll on a power play. A blistering drive by visitor Mary Coach retied the game halfway through the third period, but even a late Harvard penalty didn't give Colby the chance it needed...
...proves that Egypt is always right," declared an excited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as he stood at the steps of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace awaiting the arrival of a surprise visitor. His guest: Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who had shunned Egypt ever since Mubarak's predecessor, the late Anwar Sadat, took his search for peace to Jerusalem in 1977 and subsequently signed a peace treaty with Israel. Now, in one of those strange, unpredictable moments of diplomatic fluidity in the Middle East, alignments seemed to be shifting once more...
...hero. But his generosity was immense, and he was admired by one of history's great figures. Lafayette is the tale of a boy who lost his father at age two and at 19 found a magnificent replacement: George Washington, who dominated the American Revolution and its young visitor. After helping the U.S. gain independence, Lafayette spent a lifetime trying to be the French Washington, attempting to transfer the American ideal of freedom to his benighted land and to act with the principled courage of his mentor. Pretending to be great, the marquis eventually learned to behave nobly...