Monday, Movember 3,1986/The Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
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Sunday’s release of David Jacob-
j sen brought new hope to relatives of
I Americans still held hostage in Leb
anon, but for some the hope was
tinged with fear that their loved ones
would remain captive.
“There’s this feeling inside that
now’s the time, now’s the time,’’ said
Jean Sutherland, wife of Thomas
Sutherland, 55, an official at the
American University of Beirut who
was abducted June 9, 1985. “All the
events are really making you feel like
now is the time.”
But Mrs. Sutherland, speaking at
Denver’s Stapleton International
Airport before boarding a jet to
Washington where she planned to
meet with State Department offi
cials, said she can’t expect her hus
band to be released.
“I’ve never done the roller-coaster
thing,” she said. “I’ve always kept my
hopes at the very highest for every
single day, but my expectations al
ways at zero because you have to
handle reality.”
In California, members of Jacob
sen’s family wept with joy on learn
ing the director of the American
University Hospital had been re
leased after 17 months of captivity
but said their happiness was muted
with the knowledge other Americans
still were held.
“It’s such a relief,” said Carla
Forbes, one of Jacobsen’s sisters.
“First I just cried and cried and
cried. I wasn’t sad but I had every
thing pent up inside me for so long I
just had to cry.”
Six Americans and 13 other for
eigners remain missing in Lebanon,
kidnapped by various underground
groups.
After Jacobsen’s release Sunday,
the Shiite Moslem group Islamic Ji
had issued a statement saying the
U.S. government had made ap
proaches that could lead to the re
lease of other captives.
In Malden, Mass., Leota Sprague
said, “We just hope and pray, now
Envoy resumes efforts to release hostages
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — An
glican Church envoy Terry Waite,
resuming a shuttle to free foreigners
kidnapped in Lebanon, re-emerged
Sunday after dropping out of sight
for two days.
Waite, 47, boarded a U.S. Black-
hawk helicopter at the Larnaca air
port Sunday and flew to Beirut, the
capital of Lebanon, where he met
with freed American hostage David
Jacobsen.
He told the Associated Press in a
telephone interview that he and Ja
cobsen talked “for some hours,” but
did not disclose details of their con
versation or where they met.
A U.S. Embassy official in Beirut,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
said Jacobsen was in the embassy
compound.
“We hope very much with the
help of some friends here we can se
cure the release of other hostages,”
Waite said, without elaboration.
“Our main hope now is to secure the
rapid release of U.S. and other hos
tages.”
U.S. military helicopters landed
and took off several times Sunday at
the airport, apparently shuttling
among Beirut, a British base on this
Mediterranean island and ships of
the U.S. 6th Fleet on missions linked
to Jacobsen’s release.
The activity appeared to swirl
around Waite, a church layman who
has worked for more than a year to
free Americans and others held cap
tive in Lebanon.
He announced his latest round of
efforts Friday when he telephoned
the AP office in Beirut to say he was
in the city and that “something may
happen in a day or two.”
He flew to Larnaca Friday night,
but then dropped out of sight until
Sunday.
Conflicting accounts of his where
abouts emerged in the interim, in
cluding that he had been in Damas
cus, Syria.
The foreign minister of Iran, who
is believed linked to the Shiite Mos
lem group that held Jacobsen, was in
Damascus on Saturday.
After nightfall Sunday, several
people disembarked from two U.S.
military helicopters parked at the
Larnaca airport about 400 yards
from where reporters gathered.
At about the same time, a car sped
from the direction of the helicopters
and stopped in front of an airliner.
Three wheelchairs were parked at
the foot of the stairs.
The driver got out, mounted the
steps and then returned to the car
and drove away.
Reporters gave chase, shouting
? |uestions. This diverted attention
rom the group that walked away
from the helicopter, and the episode
may have been a ruse.
Officials would not identify those
who got on or off the helicopters or
say if diplomats or freed hostages
were among them.
The airport in the past has been
used as an evacuation route for
American diplomats from Beirut.
The United States recently flew
much of the remaining staff of its
Beirut embassy to Cyprus as a pre
cautionary measure shortly after
Syria and Britain broke reladons
Oct. 24.
that one has been released, that this
will be resolved and they will all be
released. We’re just hoping and
praying,”
Her son, Frank Herbert Reed, 53,
director of the Lebanese Interna
tional School, was kidnapped Sept. 9
and is among the remaining nos
tages.
Bob Cicippio, nephew of 56-year-
old hostage Joseph James Cicippio,
an American University of Beirut of
ficial who was seized Sept. 12, was
wary.
“My gut feeling is that I think the
terrorists are probably going to re
lease them one at a time over a long
period to get the maximum play out
of it,” the 33-year-old nephew said in
Worcester, Pa.
For relatives of Terry Anderson,
the chief Middle East correspondent
for the Associated Press who was ab
ducted March 16, 1985, the mood
was uncertain.
“Even though there’s been no
confirmation of the other hostages
being released, there’s a lot of talk,
and we’ve put stock in that,” the Rev.
Thomas Vickers, a family spokes
man, said in Batavia, N.Y. “It’s a
houseful of mixed emotions.”
Asked about Anderson’s sister,
Peggy Say, Vickers replied, “We
have to hold her down and force her
to rest and relax. She is busy doing
things that she feels should be
done.” He did not elaborate.
Earlier Sunday he said: “The
mood is down now with expecting to
hear that all of them were released.
But we’re hoping to hear about
Terry real soon.”
In his earlier comments, Vickers
said the family was bitterly disap
pointed that Anderson was not re
leased with Jacobsen.
“We are really happy for Eric and
the family,” Vickers said. “Of course
the emotions are mixed right now
with Terry.
“We’re just hoping it will con
tinue.”
Democrats looking
for Senate control
in election results
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dem
ocrats sounded confident while
Republicans seemed less than cer
tain Sunday about the outcome of
their battle for control of the Sen
ate, the main prize in Tuesday’s
elections to choose the 100th
Congress and several governors.
Republicans rolled out their
biggest campaign weapon again,
spending $500,000 for a five-
minute late night commercial
taped by President Reagan for
airing on all three networks.
At stake on Tuesday are 34
seats on the Senate, all 435 in the
House, 36 governorships and
thousands of offices from state
legislatures to local judges.
Both sides predicted Demo
crats would improve their current
253-180 majority in the House by
as many as 10 seats.
There was similar agreement
that Republicans, who now hold
16 of 50 statehouses, would gain
as many as nine more.
But the only agreement about
the struggle for the Senate was
that the battle was hanging in the
balance after expenditures of
tens of millions of dollars over
two years.
“We’re going to be in the ma
jority when the polls close on
Tuesday,” Senate- Republican
Leader Bob Dole said on CBS-
TV’s “Face the Nation.” But, he
uickly added, “there are a lot of
icey races out there.”
GOP National Chairman
Frank Fahrenkopf said on NBC’s
“Meet the Press,” “Anyone who
stands and tells you definitely
that you’re going to win here and
lose there isn’t really being frank
and candid.”
Added White House Chief of
Staff Donald Regan, speaking on
ABC’s “This Week With David
Brinkley,” “I think we’ll hold it. I
think it will be very close and it
will go down into the early hours
of Wednesday before we know
the results.”
Democrats appearing on the
same shows sounded more cer
tain of success.
“It’s going to be 52-48” for the
Democrats, said the party’s leader
in the Senate, Sen. Robert C.
Byrd of West Virginia.
Sen. George Mitchell, D-
Maine, chairman of the party’s
Senate campaign committee, was
more optimistic, predicting, “53-
47.”
Republicans hold a 53-47 ma
jority in the current Senate, but
are defending 22 of the 34 seats
on Tuesday’s ballot.
The political consensus was
that Democrats would gain seats
in Maryland, Nevada and Flor
ida.
Republicans appeared in com
mand to pick up a Democratic
seat in Missouri.
Fahrenkopf seemed ready to
claim overall victory even if the
Senate fell to the Democrats.
“Normally the party in power
loses 48 House seats,” he said.
“We’re not going to lose 48
House seats. Normally the party
in power loses seven governors.
We’re not going to lose seven gov
ernors. In fact, we’re probably
going to pick up six to 10.”
Fahrenkopf said he was “hope
ful of a 51-49 edge” in the Senate
when the votes are tallied. “The
problem that we all face now . . .
there are three to eight seats that
are so close they’re practically
dead heats. I’m hoping they
break our way. If they do we can
hold control. If they break the
other way, we’re going to lose it.”
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