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These states will have gambling that is accessible, but not universal; gambling that funds state government but does not hold it hostage.
Oldman, barking out the hysterical howls that serve as lingua franca for all cinema terrorists, calls the White House and tells Vice President Kathryn Bennett (Glenn Close) that he'll kill one hostage every half hour until Radek is released.
The Los Angeles Times leads with late developments in the Indian Airlines hostage crisis in Afghanistan.
The WP says it shows a "hurried and seemingly casual decision" arrived at by the then-head of the FBI's hostage rescue team, Richard Rogers, in a discussion with a subordinate to allow one of the team members to use incendiary military tear gas cartridges against an underground shelter near the main compound building.
According to Asahi Shimbun , the hostage takers are Islamic rebels from Tajikistan.