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...family. A month later, he was deathly ill with hepatitis. A Lebanese Jewish doctor, Elie Hallat, who was also a hostage, pleaded in vain for Seurat's release. As his condition worsened, a Shi'ite commander volunteered a transfusion. "You are becoming a Shi'ite," joked a captor after Seurat was given blood. In fact, the researcher was dying. By then French Hostages Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine had been added to the group. "So I am going to die," Seurat told his friends...
...Lawrence Jenco, released last year after being held 19 months as hostage by Lebanese terrorists, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Three months prior to my release, Said, one of my captors, sat on the edge of my mat and said, "Do you forgive me?" to which I responded, "Yes, Said, I do forgive you and ask your forgiveness too." For there were times when I was filled with anger and hate. And on the evening of my release, Haj ((another captor)), quoting from my letter home to my loved ones, said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they...
...held briefly for questioning. But Cortez told a Tucson news conference last week that he probably would have been killed if DEA agents in Guadalajara had not forced his release. Cortez, who claimed he was beaten and had chili juice and carbonated water forced into his nose, said a captor told him, "If you think this is bad, wait until we get you out into the country, and you'll see what Camarena went through." The reference was to DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, who was kidnaped and murdered in 1985. The Jalisco state police unit that detained Cortez...
...interview with the NBC affiliate in St. Louis, Toga recalled that one terrorist showed him a gun. ; Said Toga: "He took out four cartridges and spun the thing, and then put the gun to my belly and pulled the trigger. The gun didn't go off." Twice more, the captor pulled the trigger, Toga said. Toga disclosed that one of the hijackers proposed marriage to Purser Uli Derickson. Said Toga: "That was the only time she lost control. The guy was serious about the proposal, and it really threw Uli for a loop...
...hard-boiled detective, Spenser, vows to rescue a maiden imprisoned in a tower. But the modern world, with its complexities ranging from feminism to the military- industrial complex, has all but nullified the chance for such straightforward valor. The "maiden" is Spenser's estranged girlfriend, Susan Silverman; her supposed captor is Spenser's rival for her love; her disappearance may in fact be voluntary; her guards are also employees of an unscrupulous international arms dealer; the macho Spenser must rely on help from a lesbian journalist and a matronly psychotherapist; and the perilous rescue turns into a wantonly bloody...