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...said he was told shortly before noon Wednesday that he was going to be freed...
...landed in Miami one day after Nicaragua's leftist government freed him in what it called a goodwill gesture to the United States...
Despite the botched delivery, the next month, an American hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, was freed. In his press conference last week, Attorney General Edwin Meese contended that Reagan did not know about the Israeli shipment until after it had occurred, but he did not specify when the President was told. Reagan telephoned Peres to thank him for his help in winning the clergyman's release. Thus the mold was cast for future swaps involving arms and hostages...
...Freed from their jobs by a grant from the city of Nottingham, they practiced full time, winning the European and world championships in 1981 and 1982 and going on to dazzle the Olympic judges in 1984. "Although we didn't realize it at the time, the Olympics was the make-or-break for us," says Dean. "Our whole careers depended on it." They formed their own company and made their first tour in 1984, visiting several U.S. cities last spring...
WASHINGTON -- President Reagan said last night that the controversial decision to sell arms to Iran was "mine and mine alone," and said two other American hostages in Lebanon would have been freed "if there had not been so much publicity" about the shipments...