Word: jacobsen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Jacobsen appeared in good health but would be taken to the U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, for an extensive medical examination...
...Frankfurt, a U.S. diplomat who is kept informed on the arrivals of freed hostages said an Air Force C-9 jetliner would be sent to Beirut to fly Jacobsen to West Germany...
...diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he expected Jacobsen to leave Beirut sometime today for the four-hour flight to Frankfurt, arriving in the afternoon. He discounted reports that Jacobsen had left Beirut, saying the plane that will be dispatched for him still was in Frankfurt at midnight...
White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan '40, meanwhile, told ABC-TV's "This Week with David Brinkley" that Syria's role in obtaining Jacobsen's release was "minimal" and that France had no part...
...Jacobsen was director of the American University Hospital in west Beirut when he was kidnapped off the street by six men on May 28, 1985. In recent months, Islamic Jihad released several videotapes in which he appealed to the U.S. government to work for the hostages' release...