Word: jacobsen
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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...
...Jacobsen, 55, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was turned over to U.S. officials on a street in Moslem west Beirut. A U.S. Embassy official, who insisted on anonymity, said Jacobsen was in good health and was at the embassy compound in Christian east Beirut...
Islamic Holy War holds Terry A. Anderson, 39, chief Middle East correspondent for the AP; David P. Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. All were abducted...
...deal promptly increased pressure on the Administration to negotiate freedom for the kidnaped Americans being held hostage in Lebanon. Two of the hostages, Terry Anderson and David Jacobsen, made a videotape that was delivered to news offices in Beirut by Islamic Jihad, the extremist group holding them, and played on American TV last Friday. Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent of the Associated Press, contrasted "2 1/2 years of empty talk and refusals to act on the part of the Reagan Administration" in his case with the "propaganda and bombast with which that Administration solved the problem of Mr. Daniloff...
...President Reagan made his first mistake in the hostage crisis, and Buckley died," Jacobsen said. "Mr. President, are you going to make another mistake at the cost of our lives...