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Lebanese terrorists influenced by Iran released one of their American captives, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, on Sept. 14, 1985. According to Israeli reports, President Reagan telephoned Peres to thank him for Israel's help in securing Weir's freedom. Five days later Iran got some of the Hawk missiles and guidance equipment that had been on the shopping list relayed through Businessman Khashoggi. They are said to have been delivered by a DC-8 cargo plane that was once owned by a Miami-based air-transport company. The aircraft took off from Tabriz, Iran, disappeared from radar screens over Turkey...
...application for a visa. Washington has declined to bring pressure on the Kuwaitis to reconsider. Evidently as part of an effort to push the Reagan Administration to force a swap, Islamic Jihad over the past 13 months has released two of its American prisoners, Father Jenco, and the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary. Both had been held captive for more than a year. Waite had a hand in the two releases, though he has never spelled out his exact role...
...ugly political duel between the governments in London and Tripoli. Following a Christmas Day meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan strongman's Bedouin tent, the Britons were freed. In September 1985 Waite played a still unspecified role in the release of a U.S. hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, who had been held for 16 months in Lebanon...
...audience of about 100 drifted in and out of the parish hall, representatives of local organizations to aid the homeless described their programs and needs. Rev. Fred Reisz, who advises the Harvard University Lutheran Shelter for the Homeless, talked about the 23-bed facility, staffed by student volunteers, which will open on November...
...four new leave-takers were all adherents to the so-called Sullivan Principles, the fair-employment guidelines devised in 1977 by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a Philadelphia civil rights leader and a member of GM's board. The Sullivan plan provides for equal treatment of the races in hiring, pay and promotions, and commits employers to improving workers' living conditions. U.S. firms doing business in South Africa used to be viewed even by most American critics of apartheid as good corporate citizens as long as they abided by the principles. A strong U.S. corporate presence in South Africa, moreover...