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Example sentences for: hostages

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Chernomyrdin got on the phone and, in a desperate and fragmented conversation broadcast live on Russian TV, negotiated the release of the hostages.
Looking to Afghanistan, where the hostages are being held on an airstrip, an editorial in the Hindu concluded, "If the Taliban wants to end its international isolation and move towards a partial lifting of sanctions, it must be seen playing a positive role in bringing this negotiation on its home turf to a successful conclusion."
In exchange, he allowed the terrorists to return to Chechnya, taking a busload of hostages with them as human shields (they were later released).
Specifically, Bush claimed not to have attended a January 1986 meeting at which Secretary of State George Schultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger vehemently opposed trading for hostages.
His national security adviser, Robert McFarlane, and McFarlane's deputy, Admiral John Poindexter, thought the hostage problem might be solved and the U.S. position in the Middle East improved if the United States quietly negotiated with Iran about exchanging hostages for modest quantities of arms.