Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shevardnadze did not mention Daniloff in his speech, but the Soviets have been saying without elaboration that Daniloff, Moscow correspondent for U.S. News & World Report magazine, could be freed "very rapidly" if the U.S. administration took the right course...
Incoming freshmen Nick Gianuzzi, John Rabin and Fuad Ombargi plan to join the squad this week, while upperclassmen Nicholas Branca, Kyle Enright, Andy Freed, Eric Bentley, David Mandell and Andy Goldfarb--none of whom played last season--will also shoot to make the team during the preseason practice...
...idea now is that the Soviets might let Daniloff go with the understanding that Zakharov would be traded later for someone more suitable: a prominent Soviet dissident, perhaps, or a Soviet citizen convicted of spying for the U.S. That is roughly what happened in 1978, when the Soviets freed U.S. Businessman F. Jay Crawford after he was accused of smuggling; two Soviet U.N. employees who had been imprisoned in the U.S. for espionage were later traded for five Soviet dissidents...
Groups calling themselves the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners and the Partisans of Rights and Freedom have issued conflicting claims of responsibility for the earlier bombings and threatened new attacks unless Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and two other jailed Middle Easterners are freed...
...group of radical Lebanese Shi'ites in June 1985 commandeered the plane after it had departed from Athens, and demanded the release of about 700 comrades held by Israel. The hijackers freed some hostages as the Boeing 727 shuttled between Lebanon and Algeria before setting down at the Beirut airport. There the hijackers and their captives were guarded by Shi'ite security forces, and a military rescue operation was ruled out. After the hijackers dispersed the remaining hostages to secret locations in Beirut, complex negotiations among the U.S., Israel and Syria led to the release of the Shi'ite prisoners...