Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re. Reagan's response Message-ID: <1340222@acf4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 16:05:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340222 Posted: Mon Jun 24 16:05:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:00:33 EDT References: <2828@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 15 >/* cgeiger@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (charles s. geiger) / 10:50 am Jun 24, 1985 */ >Second, I don't know if you are aware of this, but Berri is saying >exactly the same thing now: that he doesn't have control of the >hostages; instead, he is just acting as a mediator between whomever >and the hijackers, and that he *persuaded* the hijackers to move the >hostages as a precaution for the hostages' safety, him fearing that >a rescue attempt would wind up with the hostages getting killed. >Charles S. Geiger Actually, in an interview in the NY Times very recently, Berri said that he had control of 30 or 31 of the hostages. Mike Sykora