Word: jacobsen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department official William Jacobsen maintained that "The psychology of threatening disinvestment is more important than disinvestment because once you disinvest you have no more leverage" to change the country...
Weir had good news about some of his fellow captives. The day of his release, he said, he saw and spoke with four of them: the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, director of Beirut's Roman Catholic Relief Services; A.P. Correspondent Terry Anderson; and David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland of Beirut's American University. But he had not seen the other two, American University Librarian Peter Kilburn or Diplomat William Buckley...
...perilous. In January eight men wielding automatic rifles pulled the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, director of Beirut's Roman Catholic Relief Services, from his car in West Beirut. Two months later, Terry Anderson, 37, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, disappeared. In May six assailants snatched David Jacobsen, 54, director of the medical center at the American University, from the campus. Only five days before Flight 847 was commandeered, several gunmen captured Thomas Sutherland, 52, the university's dean of agriculture. Jeremy Levin of the Cable News Network, another American hostage taken in Beirut, escaped in February, eleven...
Others will go to the extreme of playing alone, he says, adding, "playing with yourself, so to speak, is pretty weird." Another tactic is talking about the theory of the game while away from the table, says Jacobsen. "There's not really a heck of a lot to say about foosball which makes talking about it so surprising," he adds...
...surprising that a former master can lose his touch. As Jacobsen says, "the only place you can find foosball tables are college campuses and sleazy bars...