BUSH SAYS US IS 'NOT GOING TO REST CONTENT' UNTIL ALL HOSTAGES ARE RELEASED

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• Publication Date: July 1, 1985
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BOSTON GLOBE
1 July 1985
7 OTHERS STILL MISSING
Bush says US is not going to rest content' until
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The fate of
seven kidnapped Americans re-
mained unknown yesterday, with
the Reagan administration saying
it was "not going to rest content"
until the seven, held in Lebanon
for as long as 15 months. followed
the hijack hostages to freedom.
Vice President George Bush
said other countries whose citi-
zens had been kidnapped in Bei-
rut would be asked to join an in-
ternational effort in behalf of
those still held.
"The United States govern-
ment is not going to give up, not
going to rest content, until the
seven and others are released
too," Bush told CBS News.
''Other countries have hos-
tages there." Bush said.
just a US problem."
He mentioned France as an-
other country whose citizens were
held in Beirut.
In addition to the missing
Americans, four Frenchmen and a
Briton have been kidnapped. and
an Iranian photographer disap-
peared in Beirut Thursday as he
covered the hijack crisis.
At the Air Force hospital In
Wiesbaden. West Germany, seven
US bags were added to the 39
flying in tribute to the people from
the hijacked jetliner.
Amid the administration's
massive effort to free the captives
of TWA Flight 847, relatives of the
earlier prisoners have complained
that their loved ones are Ameri-
ca's "forgotten hostages" for
whom little has been done over
the past few months.
Amal Shiite leaders in Beirut,
who arranged the release of the
hostages from Flight 847, have
said they had nothing to do with
the earlier kidnappings and could
not release the seven.
Experts in congressional and
diplomatic circles asserted. how-
ever. that Syrian President Hafez
Assad. whose intervention
brought about the release of the
hijack captives, could devise a
deal to free the seven.
all hostages are released
"Assad could, if he wants to,
expend the political capital and
bring enough presure to release
them. The question is whether e
will. I hope he does." said n. Pat
Leahy (D-Vt.). vice chairman of
the Senate select Committee on In-
telligence.
"It's not over until it's over,"
Leahy said on N07T"Weet The
Press.' "There are seven
there. a shout not forget about
them.
Samuel Lewis, former US am-
bassador to Israel. said an Assad-
sponsored effort in behalf of the
seven would be hampered by his
lack _ofdirect control over the cap-
tors, believed to be a Shiite faction
called Hezbollah. or Party of God.
"But the area they're in is cer-
tainly under the control of Syrian
forces," Lewis said. "It's risky to
try to get them out by military
means. They could be killed in the
process. but I believe that if Assad
expends enough political pressure
on Hezbollah, he'll get them."
Peggy Say. whose brother. Ter-
ry Anderson, was kidnapped by
gunmen on a Beirut street on
March 16, remained hopeful even
after it was apparent that the hos-
tage deal had failed to include her
brother.
"They expected Terry to come
out; somehow he was lost in the
shuffle with the other six," she
said. "But they know where he is.
And they've been able to speak.
apparently to his captors through
whatever means." Anderson. 37. is chief Middle
East correspondent of the Associ-
ated Press.
The other captives are William
Buckley. 56, a US Embassy politi-
cal ofvcer: Rev. Benjamin Weir.
61, a missionary: Peter Kilburn.
60, a librarian at the American
University of Beirut: Rev. Law-
rence Martin Jenco, 50, a Catholic
relief official; David Jacobsen, 54.
administrator of the American
University Hospital: and Thomas
Sutherland. acting dean of agri-
culture at the American Universi-
ty of Beirut.
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