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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
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Subject: Re: Re: American Hostages
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 16:03:32 EDT
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> 
> > The group (Witnesses for Peace) is not asking for anyone to
> > pity their plight at the hands of the contras that held them,
> > they are demonstrating that perhaps our "founding father"   
> > equivilents [sic] are less than noble. 
> > 
> > -todd jones
> 
> Another small point: from all accounts, these people's safety or
> their release were never made conditional on any demands.  So,
> who was it, on or off the net, who first labelled them "hostages" ?
> 
>         -Jan Wasilewsky

Were they not forcibly detained by a group of contra soldiers?
This is my understanding. 

The contras obviously could have
done much worse, but if they don't have the sense to leave 
American citizens alone, even when those citizens set themselves
up as martyrs, they deserve all the bad press that results.

-todd jones