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% The last-minute reprieve was amplified at week's end by another statement from the captors that omitted any new threat of execution. It was one of the few hopeful signs amid what appeared to be a hopeless stalemate in efforts to free any of the 24 foreign hostages in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages Stalemate in a Tormented Land | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

The week's most riveting drama focused on the four Beirut University College teachers who were kidnaped in January. As the week began, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine delivered to a Western news agency in Beirut a six-minute videotape of Steen reading a statement from the captives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages Stalemate in a Tormented Land | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Far too many of the scenes are marred, however, by lackadaisical execution by the spent actors. And a few of the scenes are downright inexplicable. During one interminable aria, Sesto wrestles with a rubber snake, ties himself up with a garden hose, then connects the end of the hose to...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: On Opera: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

The term is familiar by now, but the "necklace" is so benign a description that it barely hints at the horror of one of the world's most savage forms of execution. This is how it happens. In the townships of South Africa, militant black youths first capture a victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The War of Blacks Against Blacks | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

The former Prime Minister was saddened by a controversy that erupted in the last year of his life. At issue was whether Macmillan, while serving as a British representative in the Central Mediterranean region immediately after World War II, had ordered more Soviet and Yugoslav refugees returned to their countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Leader for the Last Days of Empire, Harold Macmillan: 1894-1986 | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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