在线国产一区二区_成人黄色片在线观看_国产成人免费_日韩精品免费在线视频_亚洲精品美女久久_欧美一级免费在线观看

您現在的位置: > Language Tips > Easy English > Today in History  
 





 
November 18
[ 2006-11-19 08:00 ]

November 18
olice watched fans during the game
1991: Church envoy Waite freed in Beirut

England have

Church envoy Terry Waite has been freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987.

Mr Waite, the envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, successfully negotiated the release of several Westerners held in Beirut before he was also taken captive.

He was released with an American academic, Thomas Sutherland who was seized in 1985.

Their captors, Islamic Jihad, broke the news in a brief note to an international news agency in the Lebanese capital.

Terry Waite was the last British captive in Lebanon following the release of journalist John McCarthy in August and 77-year-old Jackie Mann in September.

At a press conference in Damascus, Syria, he told reporters the kidnappers had promised other Western hostages would be released soon.

Mr Waite said his captors had told him they would free the remaining three American hostages - Joseph Cicippio, Alan Steen and Terry Anderson - by the end of the month.

His captors had apologised for kidnapping him and admitted hostage taking served no useful purpose, Mr Waite added.

Thomas Sutherland told the conference they had seen Terry Anderson - the longest-held hostage - just before their release.

Mr Sutherland said: ''We left Terry Anderson about three or four hours ago in Lebanon and he is no longer chained to the wall, thank God, but he is still in a room that has very little fresh air and no daylight whatsoever."

The release of Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland means there are now five Western hostages left in Beirut - three Americans and two Germans.

After the release of Mr Waite and Mr Sutherland were confirmed bells rang out at St Bride's Church, in Fleet Street, London, where vigils have been held on behalf of Mr Waite and other hostages.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, said he was "delighted" at the news.

''The prayers of so many people have been answered today and we thank God for news of his release,'' Dr Carey said.  

The shooting happened at a jungle airstrip

1978: Mass suicide leaves 900 dead

Artificially 1969:
The The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, have been found in Guyana in South America.

Most of the dead - members of the People's Temple Christian Church - had consumed a soft drink laced with cyanide and sedatives .

However, the body of the People's Temple charismatic leader, Jim Jones, was said to have a bullet wound in the right temple, believed to be self-inflicted.

The deaths are being linked to the earlier killings of five people, including US Congressman Leo Ryan, on a nearby airstrip.

Mr Ryan had led a fact-finding mission to the church's jungle settlement - Jonestown - after allegations by relatives in the US of human rights abuses.

Last year Jim Jones and most of the 1,000 members of the People's Temple moved to Guyana from San Francisco after an investigation began into the church for tax evasion.

People who had left the organisation told the authorities of brutal beatings, murders and a mass suicide plan but were not believed.

In spite of the tax evasion allegations, Jim Jones was still widely respected for setting up a racially-mixed church which helped the disadvantaged.

Leo Ryan's delegation arrived in Jonestown on 14 November and spent three days interviewing residents.

They left hurriedly earlier on Saturday after an attempt on Mr Ryan's life, taking with them about 20 People's Temple members who wished to leave.

Delegation members told police as they were boarding planes at the airstrip a truckload of Jim Jones' guards arrived and began to shoot.

When the gunmen left five people were dead: Congressman Ryan, a reporter and cameraman from NBC, a newspaper photographer and one "defector" from the People's Temple.

A producer for NBC News, Bob Flick, survived the attack.

Mr Flick said: "Every time someone fell down wounded they would walk over and shoot them in the head with a shotgun."

Vocabulary:
 

vigil : a period of sleeplessness(守夜)

sedative: a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person(鎮靜劑;止痛藥)





 
 
相關文章 Related Stories
 
         
 
 
 
 
 
         
 
 

48小時內最熱門

     

本頻道最新推薦

     
  拿破侖到底是怎么死的?(通訊員稿)
  Hey! Miss, please look at me!
  為什么血管看起來是藍色的?(通訊員稿)
  Come and Rescue Princess Lettuce!
  鳥巢是鳥睡覺的地方嗎?(通訊員稿)

論壇熱貼

     
  福娃英文名更改,為何事先不考慮好?
  男扮女裝,女扮男裝?
  請教高人:關于社保方面的詞匯
  評頭論足之妙語連篇
  常用英語口語1000句
  翻譯:老鄉見老鄉,兩眼淚汪汪




主站蜘蛛池模板: 久久精品123 | 黄色片免费看 | 国产传媒在线视频 | 国产精品国产三级国产有无不卡 | www.伊人 | 亚洲精品视频一区 | 在线国产一区二区 | 国产美女精品人人做人人爽 | 亚洲免费精品 | 国产免费av在线 | www中文字幕 | 美女隐私视频黄www曰本 | 日韩一区二区三区四区五区六区 | 欧美精品导航 | 日本高清视频一区二区三区 | 日韩成人免费在线 | 欧美日韩高清一区二区 | 91天堂 | 日韩色区 | 国产精品中文字幕一区二区 | 欧美一区2区三区4区公司二百 | 一区二区三区高清不卡 | 99色综合| 日本xxxxx片免费观看19 | 久久精品亚洲精品 | 伊人操操 | av在线播放免费 | 日韩在线精品 | 涩涩涩涩涩涩 | 欧美在线播放一区二区三区 | 青娱乐精品视频 | 久久亚洲天堂 | 欧美亚洲一区二区三区 | 国产一级视频 | 手机看片169 | 色偷偷噜噜噜亚洲男人的天堂 | 黄色影视在线观看 | 欧美一级在线 | 欧美一级淫片007 | 在线视频一区二区三区 | 中文字幕在线视频一区 |