Welcome Home Hostages Stir Public Joy and Resolve
Ex-hostages from the TWA Flight 7 hijacking began returning home after 17 days in captivity in Beirut. Crowds greeted them at Andrews AFB and other cities while urging efforts to free seven Americans still held abroad and condemning the hijackers as murderers.
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Associated Press
TWA Flight #7
U.S
Lebanon
Beirut
Nancy Reagan
Andrews Air Force Base
Anon
Baldwin
N.Y
Philip Maresca
Maresca
Salt Lake City
Robert G. Brown
Boston
Logan International Airport
Stow
Mass
Rockford
Ill
Salvation Army
Army
Kurt Carlson
Carlson
United States
Leo C. Byron
Pennsylvania
Andrews
Dick Thornburgh
Yron
CBS News
Peter Hill
Five ex-hostages head home from Frankfurt
Five Americans freed from the TWA 847 hijack left Wiesbaden for New York via Frankfurt, after federal debriefings. Earlier, 30 other captives were flown home to U.S. bases as the 153 passengers and crew were released in Beirut and Algiers over the previous days.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
Lebanon
TWA
United States
U.S
Wiesbaden
FBI
New York
Reagan
Air Force Base
Washington
Athens
Greece
Rome
Beirut
Algeris
Algeria
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Vincente Garza
Laredo
Texas
Diary Tells Of Playing Russian Roulette
In recounting the TWA 847 hijacking, Arthur Toga cites two episodes of Russian roulette as torture. He describes an assailant spinning a five shot revolver chamber and firing at his stomach, and notes other passengers faced similar abuse while Ali Derickson is praised as a hero for buffering captives.
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Chicago
Arthur Toga
TWA
Toga
Chicago Tribune
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis
Hill says TWA 847 captors were animals and Amal militia allied with hijackers
Peter Hill, a hostage from TWA Flight 847, described his captors as animals and said the Amal militia had a definite affinity with the Shiite hijackers. He accused the Amal of deception and noted a camaraderie between the hijackers and the militia, while expressing anger at the captors and frustration over the ordeal. He also voiced an irrational urge to see the captors destroyed.
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NEW York
Peter Hill
TWA
Amal
Beirut
Lebanon
Hill
CBS News
Nightwatch
Hoffman Estates
Ill
CBS Morning News
Reagan
USS. Air Force
Damascus
Syria
West Germany
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Bedford
Richard Moon
Elizabeth
USS Air Force
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Robert Trautmann
Trautman
George Lazansky
Algonquin
Hezbollah
Trautmann
Druse
Middle East
CIA
Ali Derickson
Ali
Okabashi
Wester
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