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Israel indicate yesterday it was willing to discuss the swap of an Israeli airman missing in Lebanon for the release of the 400 Arab prisoner, a proposal advanced Saturday by Nabih Berri, head of the main Shiite Amal militia and Lebanon's justice minister...
Lebanon's justice minister, Nabih Berri, said in Damascus, Syria on Monday that Waite had been "arrested" by the kidnappers. He did not elaborate...
Israeli authorities quickly warned Amal against turning the pilot over to Syrian forces in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri, who had helped arrange the release of the 39 TWA hostages in June 1985, was expected to use the captured pilot as a bargaining chip in his efforts to free some 250 Lebanese and Palestinian guerrillas believed held in a jail near the border by the Israeli- backed South Lebanon Army. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli army's chief spokesman, Brigadier General Ephraim Lapid, delcared, "We will not rest until we have recovered the missing man." The events in Lebanon almost...
...security checkpoint attempted to disarm a local Amal commander, his bodyguard pulled his own gun. The French responded with a fusillade that killed both Shi'ites. Before long, 100 Amal fighters roared into Marrakeh, their guns blazing away at French positions. By the time Amal Leader Nabih Berri arranged a cease-fire 14 hours later, two more Shi'ite fighters lay dead, and 18 French soldiers were wounded...
...then the Amal movement, led by the urbane Shi'ite lawyer Nabih Berri, passionately shared the Israeli goal of driving the P.L.O. from southern Lebanon. The well-funded and heavily armed P.L.O. fighters had overrun large parts of southern Lebanon and Beirut, and the Shi'ites were the principal victims of their arbitrary power. The Israeli expulsion of the P.L.O., together with the crushing of its Sunni Muslim allies, created a power vacuum that was quickly filled by the emergent Shi'ites, who have little interest in seeing the Palestinians return...