Word: jacobsen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captives. Hakim, following Secord's recommendations, went as far as to commit the U.S. to fighting the Soviets if they invaded Iran, and he pledged U.S. assistance in efforts to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Secord and North approved Hakim's arrangement. Four days before the election, Hostage David Jacobsen was freed (nonetheless, the G.O.P. lost control of the Senate). When Liman sarcastically asked Hakim if he felt as if he had played "Secretary of State for a day," the businessman boasted, "I had it better than the Secretary . . . I can achieve more...
...Eric Jacobsen, representing his father, former hostage David Jacobsen, read a message from Jacobsen that echoed Jenco's sentiments...
...long as these men are in chains, I am in chains," Jacobsen's statement said...
...warned Waite not to conduct another mission to Lebanon right now. According to one Druze official in West Beirut, Waite had incurred the displeasure of some Islamic Jihad extremists by not fulfilling a promise that he had allegedly made last November in connection with the freeing of Hostage David Jacobsen, a former hospital administrator at the American University of Beirut. They claimed that he had pledged to arrange the release of 17 members of a largely Shi'ite movement who are imprisoned in Kuwait but failed...
...Wrong again. Ollie North kept arranging arms sales. There were at least four: in February, May, July and October. Three hostages eventually were released: the Rev. Benjamin Weir in September 1985, Father Lawrence Jenco last July and David Jacobsen in November. But three more Americans were kidnaped in Lebanon beginning in September. Even so, Reagan clung to his Iranian initiative to the bitter end. In his Nov. 19 press conference, after the storm had broken, the President voiced a wan hope that diplomatic contacts with Iran could continue, and Shultz had to practically bludgeon the President into announcing that there...