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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d if showdown time in . Elections Page 5 o thousands of spaniards protest . Bases Page 9 o sunday s professional football results sports Section vol. 45, no. 200 tuesday. November 4, 1906 Freedom for Jacobsen raises Hopes for others Beirut. Lebanon a shiite moslem Kidnap pers freed american Hospital administrator David Jacobsen on sunday after holding him 17 months and Aid recent . Moves might Lead to the release of two other american captives in Lebanon. Jacobsen. 55. Of Hunting Ion Beach calif., was turned Over to us. Officials on a Surcel in moslem West Beirut. A . Embassy official who insisted on anonymity said Jacobin was in Good health when he saw him Ai the embassy compound in Christian East Beirut. Anglican Church envoy Terry Waile flew in from Cyprus met with Jacobsen then Laid the associate press in Telephone interview David is Well. He and i had a conversation together for some hours. He is looking Forward to seeing his family and  Waile would not say where he saw Jacobsen but said we Hope very much with the help of some friends Here we can secure the release of other hos tages. Our main Hope now is to secure the rapid release of Vas. And other  wait an emissary of archbishop of Canterbury Rob Ert Runcie. Has been shuttling Between Lebanon Syria and Cyprus since thursday in an Effort to free foreign hostages in Lebanon. La was not dear what role if any he had or Jacobsen s release. Jacobsen Laler was flown to Cyprus id a is. Navy helicopter. Me told newsmen there he Felt absolutely  islamic jihad the extremist group that held Jacobsen still holds two americans journalist Terry a Anderson and educator Thomas Sutherland. It said last year in lulled . Diplomat William Buckley 57, but no body was found. Lebanese shiite and Western intelligence sources have said Buckley May have died earlier. Three other see of Freedom on Page 28 a maid warns Mill taking pictures of the of a a Mitny Tail Dini a Moi Law West Beirut where but a rid Jacobow we Fantt. At left is a photo of Jacobin Token hut month Dwian a pin tar help. Families of hostages just hoping and praying9 by the associated press sunday release of David Jacobsen alter 17 months of Captivity in Lebanon a renewed the Hopes of the families and friends of americans still being held in the Middle East six americans and 13 foreigners re main musing in Lebanon kidnapped by various underground groups. After Jacobsen s release the shiite moslem group islamic jihad issued a statement saying the . Government had made approaches that could Lead to the release of other captives. My heart is pumping when i Headword that things were moving said Leota Sprague 87, whose son Frank Herbert Reed is among the remaining hostages. We just Hope and Pray now thai one has been released that this will be re solved and they will All be released we re just hoping and praying she said in Maiden mass. Reed s3, director of a private school in Beirut was kidnapped sept. 9, and a pro libyan group called Arab revolutionary cells Omar Moukhtar forces claimed responsibility. Reed s brother Edward said late sat urday he believed something will definitely come from negotiations the stale department told hit. Niece Marilyn Langston were continuing. Sprague said Reed s wife a syrian woman whom the family knows a fill was very upset by the Lack of Newt the a received in the Middle East about her husband. When the family last spoke with her Early saturday she bad Kun in formation than her american Miami Spague said. Another Massachusetts native Wil Liam Buckley also was kidnapped by islamic jihad. Buckley 56, a political offi cer at the . Embassy in Beirut originally from Medford was taken in March 1984. The group hot claimed he was killed but his body has never been found. Thomas Cicippio 63, brother of hos Tage Joseph James Cicippio 56, Slid of Jacobsen i release we re very Happy thai he has been released and we just Hope that the other hostages have been released  Cicippio s eight Brothers and Sisters who live in Phua Dephia or Norristown pa., have heard nothing about their brother s status. Cicippio the american University s acting comptroller in Beirut was abducted sept. 12, 1986. The revolution Ary Justice organization claimed respond Sib Lily. Last week Thomas Cicippio attended a birthday party in Philadelphia new by see release on Page 26 Cia involvement hearsay Hasenfus tells court Managua Nicaragua op1 captured Ameri can flier Eugene Hasenfus testified he was running guns to .-backed rebels when his plane was shot Down but said his claim that the operation was run bythe Cia was based on hearsay related Story on Page 28 appearing in court sunday the former american Marine examined and confirmed thai he signed a four Page Handwritten confession presented to him by the  prosecution said Hasenfus s confirmation was equivalent to a guilty  the confession Hasenfus who was captured oct. 6 after his Supply plane was shot Down by Sandim Sta troops said he was hired to help ferry guns ammunition food and other supplies to the .-Supportcd Contra rebels. 11 also said he made four flights out of the .-Bmlt air base at Aguacate Honduras and six out of the Ito tango air base in Al Salvador. Hasenfus was asked to clarify part of the confession that said two men who ran the Supply operation identified As Max Gomez and Ramon Medina worked for the Cia and that Gomel was a Friend of ice president George Bush. M a Menau said he had heard that information Filoi William Cooper and other members of the Supply operation but had do direct personal knowledge that Gomez and Medina worked for the Cia. I Cooper another american Wallace Sawyer and a nicaraguan radio operator were killed when the c-123 transport plane was shot Down by sandinista troop oct. A Only Hasenfus who parachuted from the plane survived. In 1984 Congress prohibited the Cia or is. Government from funding or directing rebel operations. In october Congress reversed in decision and president Reagan signed $100 million in Aid to the contras who Are expected to receive Cia instruction. Prosecutor Rodrigo Uleyes told reporters the Cia die was irrelevant in Hasen Iii Case. We Are not trying the Cia Reye said. We relying a criminal named Hasenflu. Hasenfus faces up to 30 year in jail if convicted of i i terrorism and violation of Public Security  
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