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...three on which he has not appeared). Being named is no guarantee of a successful career, obviously, but a remarkable number of today's most celebrated architects are 40 Under 40 alumni from 1966. They include Gunnar Birkerts, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, Hugh Hardy, William Pedersen, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Richard Meier, Charles Moore, Giovanni Pasanella, James Stewart Polshek, Jaquelin Robertson, Der Scutt, Stern, Stanley Tigerman and Robert Venturi...
...seat of one of the cars. Then, escorted by two truckloads of Lebanese police as a precaution against sniper fire, the convoy barreled toward the Green Line that divides the city's Muslim and Christian sectors. Minutes later, the cars crossed safely into Christian East Beirut, and David Jacobsen, director of Beirut's American University Hospital, was a free man for the first time in 17 months...
...Jacobsen thus became the first of seven Americans who had been still missing in Lebanon to win freedom, and there were hopes Thomas Sutherland might soon be next. Jacobsen's release followed a period of intense and secretive negotiations between officials of Islamic Jihad (Holy War), a shadowy terrorist organization known to be holding at least two other Americans, and Anglican Envoy Terry Waite, the Englishman who had helped win the freedom of two American churchmen who had been held captive in Lebanon, one 13 months ago, one as recently as four months...
...Kuwait, the daily newspaper Al-Qabas said Jacobsen was freed as a result of U.S.-Iranian negotiations...
...release of Jacobsen took place as a result of indirect U.S.-Iranian negotiations which were conducted through a third party as well as negotiations between [Anglican church envoy] Terry Waite and circles close to the kidnappers," unidentified sources were quoted as telling Al-Qabas...