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Article: When Words Are Held Hostage
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 16, 1990
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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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