American hostage Jill Carroll has been freed in Baghdad after being held for nearly three months.
In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon released the Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months.
He had been the last and the longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
But we should not hold 98 percent of American taxpayers hostage.
We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda -- at least not until 2013.
We cannot hold the American economy hostage to that process.
"The American people are held hostage to the selfish political interests of partisans on both sides, " says Hofmeister, the former Shell chief executive.
And of course there was "Argo, " the year's best picture winner, which followed a secret CIA operation to rescue six American diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980.
Other lawsuits have been filed against the FARC in federal court, records show -- including a pending 2009 case seeking damages filed by three American contractors who were held hostage by the guerrilla group.
But the Iran hostage crisis played a huge role because the American people were horrified that our fellow citizens were being held hostage, number one.
But a more rational American policy should not be held hostage to an immediate response.
Affleck also stars in "Argo" as the CIA operative who orchestrated a daring rescue of six American embassy employees during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.
Anderson told the story of Frank Reed, a fifty-four-year-old American private-school director who was taken hostage and held in solitary confinement for four months before being put in with Anderson.
In fact, American diplomats are talking about resuming direct talks with Iran over Iraq, and even of sending the first American diplomats to Tehran since the 1979-81 hostage crisis.
The film, which opens this weekend, tells the amazingly true story of a CIA plot to rescue six American stuck in the Canadian embassy during the Iranian hostage crisis with a fake movie.
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"I'm just very impatient and I think the American people are going to be impatient with any attempt to hold these funds hostage to political objectives, " he said.
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Unfortunately, Republicans in the House have refused to pass that measure, choosing instead to hold hostage tax cuts for the middle class to the wealthiest 2 percent of the American people.
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