European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments Mary Mcgrory How shiite hijackers turned terror into folks Ness the bizarre specie is and a certain amount of if congratulation has gone All the Hijack victims save Young Robert who lies in Arlington National cemetery in a martyrs were free to go and the last of the burbling even those with the families hired by the net have come to an there has been nothing like it in the history of the amal for two unbelievable came close to making terrorism one of the principal John pcs the Pilot of Twa flight called it a Icar Wirig so did Jeffrey a close Friend of Robert in once the initial horror of set hems murder had the whole episode took on the surreal coloration of some kind of an Exchange a seminar in con ducted under the after Long Bull sessions on the amal shiites Craft ily made the hostages into members of the National excuse religion and both sides came away with a new appreciation of the other Fellows Point of and what did the rest of us learn from the experience perhaps nothing that we did not know we for that Ronald Reagan is the Luckiest politician Jimmy Carter spent 444 Days on Calvary with his hos tages Reagan was in the Clear after 17 Carter Drew militant moslem fundamentalists who wanted to shake the world Reagan got lebanese shiites who seem to have taken courses in Public rela and who had a specific demand that could be met by our ally and we also found out again the awesome Power of the amal shiites had figured out that television sanctifies peo ple for by showing them on the Home dawdling Over lunch at a Seaside restaurant in attending a last supper with their answering the Roll Call in a Beirut schoolyard and kissing their captors the terrorists the players and severely restricted Al pagans the amal shiites craftily made the hostages into members of the National Carters hostages were kept in their families agitated end Lessly against their being the Only footage of their loved ones came in staged reagans hostages were constantly on we got to know their relatives on the split at the Reagan was being importune to take the hard by other television luminaries like Henry Kissinger and George to put the National interest Over the Mere saving of the if there Ever was was Over once the first mad press conference flashed on the the amal shiites had turned the to tages into television and americans take television celebrities be no harm must come to no matter what abstract principle of foreign policy May be at hostage spokesman Allyn a Texas was made for he has Light eyes and regular and looks something like Ewing a More mannerly Conwell could have been the hero of a daytime soap articulate and with narrow interests of his he made some statements that caused a certain flinching at the highest Omic out of Tris stamping Tali was hot available Levels of the administration and prompted a spate of expert comments about the Stockholm a phenomenon whereby hostages come to identify with their captors rather than with the people who Are trying to free but you dont have to be a hostage to urge the israelis to release 700 shiite prisoners in it was policy that the prisoners were being held when Reagan and Secretary of state George Shultz belatedly attempted to include the seven forgotten kidnapped americans in the Deal they vigorously de Nied they were Conwell pro he was perhaps reflecting his own self interest rather than the Stockholm amal Leader Nabih Berri had at Best a tenuous hold on the shiites he could and none on those out of and Conwell apparently had no compas Sion left Over for his Buntele Vised brother american who Are god knows in his Damascus press he said that he and his group were praying for the liberation of the Reagan acquired a new Mideast Best syrian president a rather sinister figure he previously thought of As an agent of terrorism and a soviet Pup he had to give up on the seven forgot ten he had to Back Down on reprisal and no he made no visible Progress against International but he will Call it a stoutly aver that israels release of 300 shiites the Day after our hostages were flown to was sheer Coin if he says it often enough on he will be the made fort hostage crisis has shown us that the Box is the real source of truth and Power in the c 1985 Universal press Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on his Page represent those of the and Are in no Way to be considered As representing those of the and stripes or the United Stales