Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been one of the juicier sex-and-spy scandals of recent times, but no one would have known it from the terse announcements of the French government. After the March 16 arrests of five Frenchmen and two women on vague charges of spying for a "foreign power," France last week ordered the expulsion of three Soviet diplomats. The stated reason: "activities unconnected with their mission and status...
Twenty-four foreigners, including eight Americans and six Frenchmen, are missing in Lebanon and believed held by Moslem extremists...
With that, the French refused to turn Abdallah over despite Peyroles's release, and instead filed charges against him of weapons possession and complicity in the assassinations. The F.A.R.L. responded last fall with a bombing rampage in Paris that killed eleven people and injured 160 others. Though some Frenchmen feared that a conviction of Abdallah would lead to a new round of violence, the U.S. decided to become a civil plaintiff in the case...
...Lebanon's Shi'ite terrorists, who revere Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and want to turn Lebanon into a fundamentalist Muslim state, have embarked on an orgy of abductions since the beginning of the year. Of the 24 foreign captives now being held in Lebanon, eight are Americans, six Frenchmen and two West Germans. Recent victims include two Saudi Arabians, a sign that the terrorists may be trying to pressure the Saudis to moderate their support for Iraq in its six-year-old war with Iran...
Even before last week's grim harvest of hostages, the roster of those already held captive in Lebanon consisted of five Americans, five Frenchmen, two Britons, an Italian, an Irishman, a South Korean and a Saudi Arabian. Last week Vice President George Bush confirmed that another American hostage, CIA Beirut Station Chief William Buckley, was killed last year by his captors. Anderson and Sutherland were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks...