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...Washington, President Reagan told reporters he suspected Anderson and Jacobsen made their statements "under the orders of their captors...
Terry A. Anderson and David Jacobsen made their appeal in a 10-minute tape delivered to the Beirut offices of two Western news agencies by Islamic Jihad, the organization holding them. They also said hostage William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat kidnapped in March 1984, had been killed in captivity...
Jenco's release, like that of others before him, highlighted the plight of the remaining Western hostages in Lebanon. Among them are three Americans still held by the same group: Associated Press Correspondent Terry Anderson, 38, David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean of agriculture. Another American hostage, William Buckley, 58, a U.S. embassy political officer, was reported slain by Shi'ite extremists last October, but his death has not been confirmed. In addition to the Americans, there are seven Frenchmen, two Britons, an Irishman, a South...
...left behind. At one point he apologized to the press for refusing to answer some questions, explaining that his silence was "a shout of fear and concern" for "my brothers still held hostage." Honoring a promise to his former captors, the priest released a seven-minute videotape in which Jacobsen pleads with the Reagan Administration to work more actively on the hostages' behalf. Said Jacobsen: "I'm very tired and frustrated. I'm very angry. Why won't the Government negotiate for our release...
...abducted by eight men as he went about his duties as director of Catholic Relief Services in Lebanon, he was kept in solitary confinement, blindfolded and chained by his ankle to a wall. After six months, he was put in a small room with Anderson, Jacobsen and Sutherland. Until his release last September, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary, was also with them. The only clothing the captives were given was two pairs of underwear apiece--one for wearing, the other for washing. Each man was allowed to use a toilet only once a day, though a urinal bottle...