Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEIRUT, Lebanon--Shiite Moslem kidnappers freed American hospital administrator David Jacobsen yesterday after holding him 17 months, and said recent U.S. moves might lead to the release of two other American captives in Lebanon...
Throughout the more than two years foreigners have been held hostage in Lebanon, there have been repeated erroneous reports of an impending release. In other cases, some hostages were freed with no advance word...
...radio reported without elaboration that the eight were being freed "in return for releasing Georges Ibrahim Abdallah," a Lebanese Christian jailed in France on charges related to terrorism...
...Paris, a French Foreign Ministry official, speaking anonymously in accordance with custom, said the report that the hostages had been turned over to Syrians and were about to be freed was "without foundation...
...Freed Nick Daniloff prefaced his remarks by saying it was not his "usual style" to speak into a forest of microphones. "I spent a great deal of time thinking," he said, "both when I was in the bowels of Lefortovo Prison and later when I was in the custody of the American embassy. I thought what a wonderful nation it is that will go all out for a single individual. It seems to me that's one of the distinctive things about this country -- that it is built on single individuals, each one a precious individual. And I couldn...