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Article: American Hostage Reed Is Released by Shiites; Iranians Say Next Step Is Up to U.S.
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- The Washington Post
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- May 1, 1990
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Frank H. Reed was released tonight by Shiite Moslem captors after
44 months as a hostage in Lebanon, the second American freed as part
of an apparent Syrian-Iranian initiative to improve ties with the
United States.
The 57-year-old educator and Massachusetts native was handed over
to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian at Syria's Foreign Ministry in
the same manner that American educator Robert Polhill was released
April 22 after being held 39 months.
The authoritative, English-language Tehran Times, in an editorial
in its Tuesday edition, warned that "now the ball is in the court of
the U.S. and Western countries."
The daily said that unless there is "an appropriate response"
such as ...