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In 1979, fifty Americans were taken hostage by student revolutionaries in Iran, and held for 444 days.

One of the police negotiators offered to take the place of a hostage, but the terrorists refused.

The police don't want to attack the building where the terrorists are holding people, out of fear that some hostages may be killed in the attempt to free them.

The murder of Israeli athletes taken hostage during the Munich Olympics is the most terrible incident in the history of the Olympic Games.

In 1996, Chechen rebels seized some 2,000 hostages in a southern Russian town, and threatened to kill them if their demands were not met.

When one of his ship's boats was stolen, Captain Cook took a Hawaiian chief as hostage until the boat was returned.

Discussion question: Should governments pay money to terrorists in order to obtain the release of hostages?

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