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Freed American hostage, David Jacobsen, appealed today for the release of the remaining captives in Lebanon, saying, "Those guys are in hell and we've got to get them home." Jacobsen made his remarks as he arrived at Wiesbaden, West Germany, accompanied by Anglican Church envoy, Terry Waite, who worked to gain his release. And Waite says his efforts will continue. Jacobsen had a checkup at the air force hospital in Wiesbaden. And hospital director, Colonel Charles Moffitt says he is doing well. "Although Mr. Jacobsen is tired, our initial impression is that he is physically in very good condition. It also seems that he has dealt with the stresses of his captivity extremely well." Although Jacobsen criticized the US government's handling of the hostage situation in a videotape made during his captivity, today he thanked the Reagan Administration and said he was darn proud to be an American. The Reagan Administration had little to say today about the release of Jacobsen or the likelihood that other hostages may be freed. Boarding Air Force One in Las Vegas, the President said, "There's no way to tell right now. We've been working on that. We've had heart-breaking disappointments."

Mr. Reagan was in Las Vegas campaigning for Republican candidate, Jim Santini, who is running behind Democrat, Harry Reed.
In Mozambique today a new president was chosen to replace Samora Machel who died in a plane crash two weeks ago. NPR's John Madison reports: "The choice of the 130-member Central Committee of the ruling FRELIMO Party was announced on Mozambique radio this evening. He is Joaquim Chissano, Mozambique's Foreign Minister, No. 3 in the Party. Chissano, who is forty-seven, was Prime Minister of the nine-month transitional government that preceded independence from Portugal in 1975. He negotiated the transfer of power with Portugal.

This much is clear tonight: an American held in Lebanon for almost a year and a half is free. David Jacobsen is recuperating in a hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Twenty-four hours earlier, Jacobsen was released in Beirut by Islamic Jihad. But this remains a mystery: what precisely led to his freedom? Jacobsen will spend the next several days in the US air force facility in Wiesbaden for a medical examination. Diedre Barber reports.
After preliminary medical checkups today, David Jacobsen's doctor said he was tired but physically in very good condition. US air force hospital commander, Charles Moffitt, said in a medical briefing this afternoon that Jacobsen had lost little weight and seemed extremely fit. He joked that he would not like to take up Jacobsen's challenge to reporters earlier in the day to a six-mile jog around the airport. Despite his obvious fatigue, Jacobsen spent the afternoon being examined by hospital doctors. He was also seen by a member of the special stress-management team sent from Washington. Colonel Moffitt said that after an initial evaluation it seems as if Jacobsen coped extremely well with the stresses of his captivity. He said there was also no evidence at this point that the fifty-five-year-old hospital director had been tortured or physically abused. Jacobsen seemed very alert, asking detailed questions about the facilities of the Wiesbaden medical complex, according to Moffitt. So far, Jacobsen has refused to answer questions about his five hundred and twenty-four days as a hostage. Speaking briefly to reports after his arrival in Wiesbaden this morning, he said his joy at being free was somewhat diminished by his concern for the other hostages left behind. He thanked the US government and President Ronald Reagan for helping to secure his release. Jacobsen also gave special thanks to Terry Waite, an envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his help in the negotiation. Waite who accompanied Jacobsen from Beirut to Wiesbaden today, said he might be going to Beirut in several days. There are still seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by different political groups. Jacobsen will be joined in Wiesbaden tomorrow by his family. Hospital officials said they still do not know how many days Jacobsen will remain for tests and debriefing sessions before returning to the United States with his family. For National Public Radio, this is Diedre Barber, Wiesbaden.

The leader of Chinese revolution, Mao Tsetong, died ten years ago today. During his lifetime, Mao became a cult figure, but the current government has tried to change that. Now his tomb and embalmed body in Beijing are just another tourist attraction. And no longer do millions of Chinese study or wave aloft the famous "Little Red Book" of Quotations from Chairman Mao. Along with the political writing, Mao wrote poetry as well—poems about the revolution, the Red Army, poems about nature.
Willis Barnstone has translated some of Mao's work and considers him an original master, one of China's most important poets. "Had he not been a revolutionary, perhaps his poetry would not have been as interesting because his personal poetry was the history of China. At the same time because he was a famous revolutionary and leader, it has prejudiced most people, almost correctly, to dismiss his poetry as simply the work of a man who achieved fame elsewhere." "But his work was not dismissed within China though?" "Well, now it's almost consciously forgotten. But when I was there in '72, you could see his poems on every dining room wall, engraved on peach-pits ... During lunch hours, workers would study his poems. They were every place." "Is there, though, a revisionist thinking within literary circles? Are people saying Mao wasn't any good as a poet either?" "No. Well, at least in my conversations in the year I recently spent in Peking teaching at the university there, I found very few people who didn't think he was a very good poet. But they did feel that his suggestions which were that people not write in the classical style, that they write in what he called the modern style, was very repressive. And as a result, of course, the restriction of publication during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, poetry was abysmal." "When you say the modern style, would that be, for example, free verse?" "It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes or classical forms." "You write in the introduction to one of your translations of poems of Mao Tsetong that people ... you explain that leaders in China, and indeed in the a East, are expected to be accomplished poets." "Yes, I think that's true. The night that Tojo ... before Tojo died, he, ... in Japan, he wrote some poems. Ho Chi Minh was a poet. It was common. In fact, I think until early in the twentieth century, even to pass a bureaucratic exam, one had to know a huge number of classical forms. And especially, a leader should at least be a poet." "There is one poem which is political in nature which has to do with a parasitic disease in China." "Yes. Mao wrote some poems, two poems actually, about getting rid of a disease that was a plague for the country. And it's called 'Saying goodbye to the God of Disease.' And the poem needs annotation. In that sense, it's typical of classical Chinese poetry; he makes references to earlier emperors and places.
Saying Goodbye to the God of Disease
Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing
When the great ancient doctor Hua Tuo
Could not defeat a tiny worm.
A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds,
Men were lost arrows, ghosts sang
In the doorway of a few desolate houses.
Yet now in a day, we leap around the earth,
Or explore a thousand milky ways.
And if the cowherd who loves on a star
Asks about the God of plagues,
Tell him, happy or sad, "The God is gone,
Washed away in the waters."
A poem by Mao Tsetong read by Willis Barnstone, Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington. He talked with us from WFIU.

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Iran's official news agency said today former US National Security Advisor Robert

McFarlane and four other Americans were jailed in Tehran for five days recently after

they arrived on a secret diplomatic mission. The report quoted the speaker of Iran's

parliament as saying President Reagan sent the group to Tehran posing as aircraft

crewmen. He said they carried with them a Bible signed by the President and a cake.

He said the presents were designed to improve relations between the two countries.

Neither the Reagan Administration nor McFarlane had any comment on the report.

There were published reports in the Middle East that hostage David Jacobsen was

freed as a result of negotiations between the United States and Iran. Asked about

that today, Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite said that he didn't want to comment

on the political dynamics. But Waite said he may know within the next twenty-four

hours from his contacts if he will be returning to Beirut to negotiate the release of

more hostages.

Jacobsen was reunited with his family today, but again said his joy could not be

complete until the other hostages are freed. He appeared on the hospital balcony

with his family and talked with reporters. Hospital director Colonel Charles Moffitt

says Jacobsen needs to communicate with people now. "He likes to talk, whether

that be to a group of press or to individual physicians. Once you get him started on a

subject, he wants to talk because he hasn't been able to do that." Moffitt says

Jacobsen is in good health and will not need followup medical care.

A low to moderate turnout is reported across the nation so far on this election day.

Voters are choosing members of the one hundredth Congress, thirty-four senators

and all four hundred thirty-five members of the US House of Representatives. One of

the big questions is which Party will control the Senate after today's voting.

President Reagan's former National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane, and four

other Americans may have visited Tehran recently on a secret diplomatic mission.

Today, on the seventh anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, Iran

Speaker of the Parliament said the visiting Americans were held for five days before

being expelled from the country. NPR was unable to reach Mr. McFarlane today for

comment and the White House says that it can neither confirm nor deny the story.

NPR's Elizabeth Colton reports.

Today in Tehran, Speaker of the Parliament, Hashami Rafsanjani took the occasion to

tell a rally that President Reagan had recently sent personal envoys to Iran, calling for

improvement of relations. In response to the American overtures, Rafsanjani

announced that Iran will advise its friends in Lebanon, in other words the hostage

takers, to free US and French hostages if Israel frees Lebanese prisoners, and if the

American and French governments end their hostility to the revolutionary

government of Iran. Rafsanjani then reportedly described for the tens of thousands

outside his parliament, the visit of the five American emissaries. The Iranian said they

flew in, posing as the flight crew of a plane bringing American military spare parts to

Iran from Europe. The US envoys reportedly carried Irish passports, now said to be

held by Iranian officials. And one of the men called himself McFarlane. And according

to Rafsanjani, he looked exactly like President Reagan's former National Security

Advisor. Rafsanjani claimed that Iranian security officials also have a tape of

telephone conversations between the American President and his envoys, The

Iranian cleric, Rafsanjani, said the five men were confined to a hotel for five days and

later deported after Ayatollah Khomeini advised Iranian officials not to meet them or

receive their message. Rafsanjani said the Americans had brought a Bible signed by

President Reagan and a key-shaped cake which they said was the symbol of the hope

of reopening US-Iran relations. In Tehran today, at the ceremony marking the

anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy, Parliamentary Speaker

Rafsanjani described the visit by the American emissaries as a sign of Washington's

helplessness. The White House said it would neither confirm nor deny the reports,

because according to the press office, there are certain matters pertaining to efforts

to try to release the hostages, and comments might jeopardize them. Robert

McFarlane, who was also a frequent political commentator for NPR's morning edition,

has been unavailable for comment. I am Elizabeth Colton in Washington.

Over the last few years and around the country, the number of fundamentalist

religious groups is said to be growing. Some are called "ultra-fundamentalist" groups.

The estimates varied greatly. The number could be as high as two thousand. These

organizations have different purposes and beliefs, but usually have one thing in

common—strong leadership, quite often one person. Four years ago in October at a

fundamentalist Christian commune in West Virginia, a young boy died after a

paddling session that lasted for two hours. The child was spanked by his parents. He

had hit another child and refused to say he was sorry. We reported the story of that

paddling—the story of the Stonegate Community in November of 1982. Since that

time, Stonegate leader has been tried and convicted, one of the first times a leader of

a religious group has been held responsible for the actions of a member. Also in that

time the parents of the child have served jail terms, and now they have agreed to tell

their story.

The Stonegate Commune was near Charleston, West Virginia, in the northeast corner

of the state. It's mostly farming country. The Stonegate members lived outside of

town in an old white Victorian house, overlooking the Shenandoah River, eight young

families living and working together. They did some farming, some construction work

and for a time ran a restaurant in Charleston. It was their intention to become less of

a commune and more of a community, with the families living in separate houses on

the property. We went to Stonegate on a Sunday evening in November of 1982. We

were reluctantly welcomed. Less than a month before, two Stonegate members had

been indicted for involuntary manslaughter. They were the parents of Joseph Green,

who was two years old when he died. On this night many of the Stonegate people

were defensive, almost angry.

That was four years ago. The parents, Stewart and Leslie Green, were convicted of

involuntary manslaughter and both spent a year in jail. First Stewart, then Leslie.

Then in a separate legal action, the leader of the Stonegate commune, Dorothy

McLellan was also indicted. McLellan did not take part in the paddling but she w