Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrow tunnels to amputate limbs before victims could be lifted to safety. The physicians had to operate carefully to avoid so-called crush syndrome, the slow buildup of toxins in the damaged limbs of trapped victims. Without proper treatment, like the intravenous infusion of liquids even before people were freed from the rubble, the condition could result in the death of survivors through kidney failure...
...detention and release of the Rev. Allan Boesak illustrates what is happening to committed non-violent leaders all over South Africa. Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, was charged with subversion after he called for school and consumer boycotts and withdrawal of foreign investments. He was freed on bail on September 20th after spending nearly a month in jail...
...Freed by his captors 16 months after he was abducted by terrorists on a Beirut street, the Rev. Benjamin Weir reappeared last week, in church. "I hardly need to say that I'm glad to be here," he told a press conference in Washington's National Presbyterian Church and Center, his wife Carol by his side. As relatives of the six Americans still held hostage in the Middle East watched, the former missionary then delivered a grim message from his erstwhile jailers: unless the Reagan Administration pressures Kuwait to release 17 terrorists convicted of seven bombings in December...
...with his captors about what he would and would not disclose publicly. To protect the other hostages he would not identify his captors, say where he was held or provide details on his repatriation, which was kept secret for three days in the hope that more Americans would be freed quickly...
...Weir freed at this time? One possible reason might have been the Administration's stepped-up efforts to gain the hostages' freedom since the release two weeks ago of the last of 760 mostly Shi'ite prisoners from Israel's Atlit Prison. These were the prisoners that terrorists had demanded be freed after the hijacking of TWA's Flight 847 in June...