1.   The freed Irish hostage, Brian Keenan has called on Britain and America to start negotiations to try to get other western hostages out of Lebanon.

2.   After the drama was over, some freed hostages also said they had heard the gunmen talking about destroying the plane over Paris.

3.   Freed hostages said the four hijackers, who were led by Abdul Abdallah Yahja, had recited prayers and forced women passengers to cover their heads with Muslim scarves.

4.   Freed hostages said they carried two Kalashnikov assault rifles and two automatic pistols and were wearing the uniforms of airport ground crew when they came on board.

5.   It offers suggestions for freed hostages on how to put their lives back together.

6.   Later, typically, he steps on it, holding forth endlessly at a Dulles Airport news conference as freed hostages drift away.

7.   One was a freed hostage, leaving three to five hostages in the bank.

8.   Red Cross officials identified the freed hostage as Gen. Jose Rivas Rodriguez, deputy chief of the Peruvian National Police.

9.   Russian television on Tuesday night showed the first of the newly freed hostages.

10.   The freed hostages, from France, Germany, South Africa and Lebanon, were to be sent home later.