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Directed by Nicholas Weir...
Despite the botched delivery, the next month, an American hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, was freed. In his press conference last week, Attorney General Edwin Meese contended that Reagan did not know about the Israeli shipment until after it had occurred, but he did not specify when the President was told. Reagan telephoned Peres to thank him for his help in winning the clergyman's release. Thus the mold was cast for future swaps involving arms and hostages...
Ironically, the Israelis may have had little to do with Weir's freedom. According to the Repatriation Front, the release was arranged by the Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, a religious radical and Khomeini's heir apparent. Montazeri was evidently chagrined by his rival Rafsanjani's diplomatic overtures and decided to one-up the mullah by showing that he had sufficient influence to win freedom for an American hostage. "It is clear that the Americans did not understand who they were dealing with," says one knowledgeable dissident. "It seems they thought they were still dealing with one Iranian government, just...
...directors -- like John Boorman with The Emerald Forest and Roland Joffe with The Mission -- are drawn to shoot stories of strong men in death-defying jungle locations. They end up tracking their willful protagonists to death or madness, and the audience rarely follows. With all his art and effort, Weir is unable to enlist cogent concern for Allie Fox. One escapes from The Mosquito Coast as one might from a plague of the title insects, itching and irritable...
...weapons. In September McFarlane told Kimche that Reagan opposed any arms-for-hostages deal, but some U.S. officials assert the NSC chief did not object explicitly to Israel's supplying Iran on its own. Israel delivered a planeload of arms to Iran that month; just days later, Hostage Benjamin Weir was released...