The Bush administration - saying "there is a lot happening" on hostages - Monday sent a clear message to Iran: - The U.S. "will make no concessions" for the release of hostages held in the Mideast. - Anyone working behind the scenes for the hostages' release is not speaking for the U.S. government.
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Polhill release 'joyous'
Apr. 23, 1990
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President Bush hailed the release Sunday of hostage Robert Polhill as "a joyous occasion," but called it "a mission uncompleted" until seven other USA hostages come home.
"I don't have forgiveness in my heart, as long as one American is held against his will, and as long as one family has a broken heart," Bush said.
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'Lonely' captivity is over
May 1, 1990
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The release Monday of the second U.S. hostage in nine days - Massachusetts teacher Frank Reed - is a sign "things seem to be moving" in the right direction, an optimistic President Bush said.
Reed was held in Lebanon in what he called "lonely ... boring" captivity by Shiite Moslem extremists since Sept. 9, 1986.
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'Tell my son that his daddy is well'; 'Topsy-turvy' politics can't answer 'why'
May 1, 1990
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As freed hostage Frank Reed leaves behind his lonely captivity in Lebanon, the question circulating at the White House is: Why now?
Why - after the failure of the Iran-contra affair and the harsh public words that have crackled between the USA, Iran and Syria - have two USA hostages been freed in the last nine days?
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Families greet freed hostages
Nov. 20, 1991
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LONDON - Thomas Sutherland and Terry Waite had emotional reunions with their families Tuesday, a day after their release from years of captivity in Lebanon.
Sutherland, 60, met his wife, Jean, and two of his three daughters at a U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany. Flanked by family, he appeared briefly on the balcony of a U.S. military hospital, saying little but raising his fists like a victorious prizefighter.
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Anderson nears freedom; Steen out:'It's great'
Dec. 2, 1991
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Freedom may come today for Terry Anderson, the longest held U.S. hostage, closing the nearly seven-year hostage drama in Lebanon.
Captive Alann Steen was released Tuesday.
Iran's U.N. Ambassador Kamal Kharazzi, who has influence with the captors, Tuesday reiterated a prediction Anderson, 44, would be freed today. So did U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar.
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Cicippio feels 'terrific,' but family is concerned
Dec. 3, 1991
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Former hostage Joseph Cicippio, gaunt but grinning, arrived Monday in Germany after a harrowing five years.
"I would like to put it all behind me, and I would like to get going to the next day as my first new day of my new life," said Cicippio, 61.
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Terry Anderson is freed from Beirut; Last hostage released after nearly 7 years
Dec. 4, 1991
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Terry Anderson, the last American held in Lebanon, was released early today from six years, nine months and 18 days of captivity, the official Iranian News Agency said.
The agency, which has usually proved reliable on hostage releases, said Anderson, 44, was freed at 3 a.m. EST and was on his way to the Syrian capital, Damascus.
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Freed hostages recuperate and remember
Dec. 6, 1991
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For the final three U.S. hostages, freed this week, Thursday was a day for thoughts of revenge, reunion and repatriation at a busy U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Alann Steen, 52, who suffered brain damage from beatings by his captors, said they should be made to face justice for their crimes.
