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Emotional reunion as Jacobsen freed hostage reaches Wiesbaden
David Jacobsen 55, administrator of the American University Hospital in Beirut, is reunited with his children Eric and Paul Jacobsen and Diane Duggan at a West German military hospital in Wiesbaden after 17 months in captivity. Anglican envoy Terry Waite, who helped secure his release, awaits further talks on other hostages in Lebanon. Jacobsen, freed by Islamic Jihad in Beirut, appeals for other Western captives to be released.
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Wiesbaden
West Germany
David Jacobsen
Lebanon
Jacobsen
U.S
Beirut
Eric
Paul Jacobsen
Diane Duggan
Frankfurt
Anglican Church
Terry Waite
Waite
American University Hospital
Islamic Jihad Organization
Wiesbaden Air Force Hospital
Cpl
Charles K. Maffet
Maffet
Terry A. Anderson
Middle East
Associated Press
Thomas Sutherland
The
American University
Anderson
Sutherland
Islamic Jihad
Larnaca
Cyprus
Terry
New York Times
Iran
Jacob Set
Mehdi Hashemi
Hashemi
Ayatollah
Hussein Ali Montazeri
Ruhollah Khomeini
United States