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Hostages

1997 SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages 1992 Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53 1991 Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland 1990 Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages 1990 Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages 1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages 1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages 1990 Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari) 1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages 1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields) 1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut 1981 US and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds 1980 Iran requests $24 billion in U.S. guarantees to free hostages 1980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages 1980 Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy 1980 U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die 1980 U.S. appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran 1980 6 Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of Canadians 1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages 1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC) 1979 Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages 1979 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) 1977 W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu 1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers 1977 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland 1977 Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington D.C. 1977 Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976) 1975 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days 1974 FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party 1964 Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville 1960 Colin Firth, born in Hampshire, England, actor, Femme Fatale, Hostages 1942 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris 1942 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel 1942 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages 1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages 1929 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free 1760 Native American hostages killed in Ft. Prince George

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