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Scarcely six days earlier, Father Jenco had been freed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley by Islamic Jihad, the shadowy terrorist organization that had kidnaped him in Beirut in January 1985. Now, suffering from heart disease and near exhaustion, he was eager to go home. But first, as he emphasized again...
The messenger dropped off sealed envelopes at the offices of two West Beirut newspapers before he disappeared into the lawless night. The news: one of the American hostages in Lebanon, Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, 51, a Roman Catholic priest from Joliet, Ill., was about to be released by Islamic Jihad...
In the Enlightenment of the 18th century, the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa appointed a troop of spies known as Commissioners of Chastity to enforce her prim views. Said the irrepressible Giacomo Casanova: "They carried off to prison, at all hours of the day and from all the streets of Vienna...
Donahue's captivity was not related to that of five other Americans abducted in 1984 and 1985 by Islamic Jihad, a fanatical Shi'ite Muslim group.
The antigay backlash is for the most part a peculiarly American phenomenon. Britain, West Germany and the Scandinavian countries repealed antihomosexual laws years ago, and France and Japan never had any. There has been no discernible change in attitudes since AIDS came to public attention. Homosexuality is illegal throughout the...