1.   A plane was standing by to take the hostages from the airport.

2.   The hostages were taken in reprisal for the bombing.

3.   The seige ended peacefully and Yacoub was later charged with taking hostages and with illegal possession of a firearm.

4.   Although Bergeron would not characterize the inmates who took hostages, he repeated that all Cubans in the jail were Marielitos.

5.   American Indian dissident who has taken her hostage.

6.   And they quickly predicted that the deal would invite other inmates to take hostages at prisons around the country.

7.   Apparently enraged over the arrest of member Robert Scheidt on a charge of unlawfully carrying arms, they took a couple hostage at gunpoint and later released them.

8.   Another broke into a staff area, apparently intent on taking hostages before he was wrestled to the ground.

9.   As a bitter winter closes in, Russia has again tried to take itself hostage.