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Recent reports have said that the Administration secretly sold arms to Iran during the past 18 months to secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon. The arms deal is presumed to have led to the release of David Jacobsen, who was freed on November 2 after more than 17 months of captivity...
PARIS--An 85-year-old retired car dealer and a businessman freed in Lebanon by Shiite Moslem kidnappers arrived home in France yesterday, and were greeted by Premier Jacques Chirac...
...remain optimistic, Jacobsen became more discouraged as the months dragged on. Last November he was one of the signers of a letter to Reagan that appealed to the President to negotiate their release. When one of the other hostages, Father Lawrence Jenco, a Roman Catholic relief-agency official, was freed by his captors in July, he carried with him a videotape recording of Jacobsen. On it, Jacobsen said he "felt like one of Custer's men," adding, "You know the end of their stories. Pray that ours will have a happier ending." In another videotape released last month, Jacobsen...
...again intervened for Brit ain, this time in Libya, where four British citizens had been jailed, unwitting pawns in an ugly political duel between the governments in London and Tripoli. Following a Christmas Day meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan strongman's Bedouin tent, the Britons were freed. In September 1985 Waite played a still unspecified role in the release of a U.S. hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, who had been held for 16 months in Lebanon...
...Qabas quoted sources as saying the Americans wanted the U.S. hostages freed before yesterday's elections in the United States...