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<text id=89TT0867>
<title>
Mar. 27, 1989: Convicted:Fawaz Yunis
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 85
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<p> CONVICTED. Fawaz Yunis, 30, Lebanese Amal militiaman, of
hostage taking and air piracy in the 1985 Beirut airport
seizure of an airliner carrying 70 people, including two
Americans; in Washington. Captured in 1987 in international
waters off Cyprus in an FBI sting operation, he is the first
person to be convicted under a 1984 law permitting U.S.
authorities to apprehend terrorists outside the U.S.
</p>
</body></article>
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