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  1. MILESTONES, Page 85      
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  3.     CONVICTED. Fawaz Yunis, 30, Lebanese Amal militiaman, of
  4. hostage taking and air piracy in the 1985 Beirut airport seizure
  5. of an airliner carrying 70 people, including two Americans; in
  6. Washington. Captured in 1987 in international waters off Cyprus in
  7. an FBI sting operation, he is the first person to be convicted
  8. under a 1984 law permitting U.S. authorities to apprehend
  9. terrorists outside the U.S.