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When Words Are Held Hostage

Welcome to Washington in global crisis, a semantic jungle where tortured phraseology is the native dialect. Normal discourse is not allowed.

Consider the 2,500 Americans being detained against their will by Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait. They will not be free to leave, according to Iraq, until the crisis in the region is resolved.

Every day, the State Department is asked whether these people are hostages. "It is premature to call them hostages," State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said last week. "Restrictees," as Iraq now calls them, are not hostages unless something has been demanded in exchange for their freedom.

Yesterday, Tutwiler raised another definitional hurdle: ...

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