Word: weir
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...very building where Levin was detained. Levin reported that other prisoners were in the building, but he could not hear their voices well enough to know whether they were the four Americans: William Buckley, 56, a U.S. diplomat who has been missing since March 16; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister who disappeared May 8; Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who was last seen Dec. 3; and Father Lawrence Jenco, 51, head of the Catholic Relief Service office in Beirut, who was abducted Jan. 8. A caller to a Beirut news agency...
...Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Now, returning from the outer space of the Star Wars sagas and the exotic locales frequented by that adventurous archaeologist, Indiana Jones, he is starring in Peter Weir's Witness, a contemporary thriller that promises to be the first hit of 1985. Put into wide release on Feb. 8, the film made $4,540,000 in its first weekend, an exceptional figure for a picture that boasts neither gimmicks nor special effects...
Possibly this tone of civilized irreconcilability stems from a feeling on the part of Australian Director Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli) that he was himself a stranger in a curious corner of a strange land. But for whatever reasons, the distinguishing marks of Witness are its refusals. Book may help with a barn raising, and win respect for his carpentry, but that does not make him anyone's new best friend. Rachel may dance with him to a tune they hear on his forbidden car radio, or finally embrace him hungrily, but that does not mean that they...
...television news agency. And last week the footage, showing pale but well- groomed U.S. Diplomat William Buckley standing in front of a bare wall and holding a Beirut newspaper, appeared on TV screens across the U.S. "Today, the 22nd of January 1985, I am well, and my friends Benjamin Weir and Jeremy Levin are also well," said Buckley. "We ask that our Government take action for our release quickly." In response, President Reagan assured reporters that efforts are continuing to free these and two other Americans kidnaped in Lebanon over the past eleven months...
...Beirut. He was kidnaped as he left his apartment in Muslim-controlled West Beirut last March 16 by unidentified gunmen. Levin, 52, Cable News Network's Beirut bureau chief, was abducted from a busy West Beirut street about a week earlier. The kidnapers struck again last May 8, seizing Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister, as he walked with his wife in the Muslim section. His wife was left behind unharmed. The two other missing Americans are Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut who vanished on Dec. 3, and Lawrence Jenco, 51, a Roman Catholic priest...