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Hostage

1995 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81 1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage 1991 Muslim Shites release last U.S. hostage Terry Anderson (held 6 years) 1991 Muslim Shites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen 1991 Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio 1991 U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut 1991 Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy 1991 Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy 1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years 1990 Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley California 1990 U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians 1990 Lebanon release U.S. hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months 1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon 1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released 1986 U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut 1985 Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley 1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon 1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon 1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut 1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut 1984 Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage 1983 U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge 1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives 1982 David S. Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon 1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain 1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage 1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US 1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed 1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen 1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran 1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis 1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" 1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage 1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline") 1979 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran) 1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges 1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 1977 Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad 1976 Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe 1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99 1960 Peter Virgile, soap actor, Hostage, Popeye Doyle 1958 Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premieres in London 1954 Patty Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage, Tanya 1947 Terry Anderson, AP correspondent/U.S. hostage held in Lebanon, 1985-91 1939 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage 1923 Brendan Behan, born in Dublin, Ireland, author and poet, Hostage 1914 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage 1891 John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights 1883 English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) 1882 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress, Hostage Rights of Aemstel 1653 Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 1638 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel" 1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java 1495 Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France

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