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Freed by his captors 16 months after he was abducted by terrorists on a Beirut street, the Rev. Benjamin Weir reappeared last week, in church. "I hardly need to say that I'm glad to be here," he told a press conference in Washington's National Presbyterian Church and Center, his wife Carol by his side. As relatives of the six Americans still held hostage in the Middle East watched, the former missionary then delivered a grim message from his erstwhile jailers: unless the Reagan Administration pressures Kuwait to release 17 terrorists convicted of seven bombings in December...
...Donald Weir (bag pipes) -- From Edinburgh, Scotland, he has been in this country for only two weeks. His schedule is loose, but Weir says plans to play regularly until Aug. 24. His show is somewhat of a novelty and is not to be missed...
That was the day when William Buckley, 57, political officer of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, was abducted from his car. In May 1984 the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 61, a Presbyterian minister who had lived in Beirut for more than 30 years, was seized. Six months later, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, was reported missing...
...crucial contributions of foreign-born filmmakers to the Hollywood movie. On Oscar night this spring, Czech-born Milos Forman (see box) walked away with a best-director statuette for his work on the laurel-laden Amadeus. This year's first surprise hit, Witness, was directed by Australian Peter Weir; this summer's runaway "Gook" buster, Rambo: First Blood Part II, was helmed by the Greek immigrant George Pan Cosmatos. Indeed, when America wants to cauterize its own psychology or psychopathy onscreen these days -- in Birdy or The Falcon and the Snowman, in The Killing Fields or Alamo Bay -- chances...
...kidnaped by the shadowy forces of Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, has been killed. But the situation is worsening as the Shi'ite extremists step up their demands. The four Americans pictured in the terrorist photographs were: Terry Anderson, 37, Associated Press Beirut bureau chief; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, a Roman Catholic priest; and U.S. Embassy Official William Buckley, 56, who was abducted on March 16, 1984, making him the longest-held American captive. A fifth American, Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, has been...