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Jacobsen, 55, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was turned over to U.S. officials on a street in Moslem west Beirut. A U.S. Embassy official, who insisted on anonymity, said Jacobsen was in good health and was at the embassy compound in Christian east Beirut...
...typed statement, written in Arabic and delivered to a Western news agency in Beirut, did not say what approaches the United States had made. It said if they were not continued, "We shall take a totally different attitude...
...Frankfurt, a U.S. diplomat who is kept informed on the arrivals of freed hostages said an Air Force C-9 jetliner would be sent to Beirut to fly Jacobsen to West Germany...
...diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he expected Jacobsen to leave Beirut sometime today for the four-hour flight to Frankfurt, arriving in the afternoon. He discounted reports that Jacobsen had left Beirut, saying the plane that will be dispatched for him still was in Frankfurt at midnight...
Jacobsen was director of the American University Hospital in west Beirut when he was kidnapped off the street by six men on May 28, 1985. In recent months, Islamic Jihad released several videotapes in which he appealed to the U.S. government to work for the hostages' release...