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The hostage scenario has become numbingly familiar. The sadistic videotapes of frightened captives, followed by threats of execution. The White House dispatching naval fleets or listening for some faint reply down a clogged diplomatic channel to the Middle East. Last week it was George Bush's turn to try urgent...
Nothing better illustrated the endlessness of the hostage dilemma than the threat that Joseph Cicippio would quickly succeed Higgins as the next dangling man. No sooner had the videotape of Higgins' body been released to news agencies in Beirut than a countdown began toward the execution of Cicippio, 58, kidnaped...
When Cicippio's captors extended the deadline for his execution by 48 hours, there was cautious optimism at the White House that diplomatic efforts were paying off. That mood was sorely tested on Thursday morning, when the kidnapers turned the screws further with the release of a videotape in which...
As investigators and reporters jostled for scraps of information about yet another apparent traitor, did anyone care that under the law Bloch was still presumed innocent? His case may indeed prove to be the most serious spy scandal to come out of the State Department since the Alger Hiss affair...
The Lebanese group sent a videotaped message to a Western news agency to announce the indefinite postponement of Cicippio's execution.