Word: frenchmen
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Waite said on previous trips to Beirut in November and December last year that he was there at the request of Islamic Jihad, the pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group that holds at least three Americans and the two Frenchmen...
Most of France's exiles, of course, are not political figures at all, let alone terrorists, but merely victims of oppression. That long line includes Poles, Hungarians, Armenians, White Russians and Spanish republicans. In the late 1970s Frenchmen of every political persuasion welcomed the Vietnamese boat people, and today the Indochinese refugee community, with more than 100,000 members, is one of the city's largest. Inevitably, the anxiety level of Paris, and its people, rises sharply in a time of violence. But French Historian Pierre Chaunu warns against linking the current outrages with the country's traditional tolerance...
...pilot, Albert Maltret, 50, a salesman for an oil company, was publicizing the plight of Frenchmen who, he said, have been unjustly arrested in Morocco. Maltret said he was mistakenly arrested and jailed for a day last year during a business trip to Casablanca...
...Hospital in Beirut, and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. Another American hostage, William Buckley, 58, a U.S. embassy political officer, was reported slain by Shi'ite extremists last October, but his death has not been confirmed. In addition to the Americans, there are seven Frenchmen, two Britons, an Irishman, a South Korean and an Italian who are missing and believed held by Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups...
...television crewmen were kidnaped on Saturday by unknown gunmen. Earlier, the shadowy Islamic Jihad, believed to be the umbrella organization that includes Shi'ite Fundamentalist groups like the Iranian-backed Hizballah (Party of God), announced that it had killed French Researcher Michel Seurat, 37, one of the four other Frenchmen kidnaped in the Lebanese capital during the past two years. Six Americans and one Briton are still missing. The reasons for the alleged murder: retaliation against the French for their pro-Iraq policy in the gulf war and for the recent expulsion from France of two opponents of the Baghdad...