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Word: jacobsen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press. This whole thing boils down to a great irresponsibility on the part of the press. I told them when this broke that there were a whole lot of questions I couldn't answer. I said to them, "Please don't ruin this." (David) Jacobsen, the hostage who had just been released, asked them not to pursue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with President Ronald Reagan | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...Aviv and on to Tehran, and the White House told the State Department to expect the release of several more hostages. In the fall three more Americans in Beirut were kidnaped. In October, the U.S. sent yet another arms shipment to Iran; less than a month later, Hostage David Jacobsen was released. But only a few days before his release, a Lebanese Arabic journal, Al Shiraa, broke the story of the Reagan Administration's dealings with Iran, and the whole scheme began unraveling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Many Strands, a Tangled Web | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...first the world learned of the unraveling scheme was just before Jacobsen's release, when Al Shiraa (The Sailboat Mast), a weekly magazine published in Muslim West Beirut, ran a sensational article reporting that the U.S. had been sending spare parts and ammunition for jet fighters to Iran. The magazine further said that McFarlane and four companions had visited Tehran in early September, stayed at the Independence (formerly Hilton) Hotel and met with a variety of officials from the Iranian Foreign Ministry, parliament and army, who supposedly asked for more military equipment. Shortly after the visit, said Al Shiraa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. and Iran | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...freedom for Journalist Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland, the acting dean of agriculture at Beirut's American University, now looks far away. The White House had once hoped that both would be released, along with Jacobsen, on the eve of last week's congressional elections, giving the Republicans a big plus. As it turned out, Jacobsen was let go a day early and Anderson and Sutherland not at all. Says a senior Administration official: "This ended the possibility, at least for now, of two more releases. That possibility has dried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. and Iran | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...EgyptAir jet carrying Abul Abbas, the mastermind of the hijacking, to safety in Tunisia. North helped plan the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and last April's Libyan air raid. It was not surprising that North turned up in Cyprus last week just when Released Hostage David Jacobsen arrived there. "Oliver North is the prototype of the modern American hero," says a friend and colleague. "Wherever and whenever Americans are in trouble, sooner or later you will see him at the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington's Cowboys | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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