Hostage

A private funeral service is planned today in Pasadena for Jacob Ole Jacobsen, who died of natural causes at age 92. He was the father of former Beirut hostage David Jacobsen, "What a joyous man he was. How lucky I was to have been reunited with him," David Jacobsen said Tuesday. Last November, the elder Jacobsen joined other family members in welcoming his son home after 17 months of captivity at the hands of Lebanese terrorists.

The Rev. Benjamin Weir says he doesn't mind being called a former hostage because the label helps keep hope alive for others kidnaped in Lebanon. Wearing a lapel pin with a yellow ribbon emblazoned with the words, "Remember the Hostages," Weir spoke on behalf of the Presbyterian Church and said the arms-for-hostages deal that apparently led to his freedom disturbs him greatly. "My church and I have been very much opposed to arms shipments to the Middle East," he said Wednesday.

A former hostage in Lebanon said the three Americans and an Indian holding U.S. residency who were captured Saturday were foolish for being in Beirut. "I'm in a state of shock," said David P. Jacobsen, who was freed Nov. 2 after 17 months in captivity. "I thought that all of the Americans in West Beirut were out and the news came to me like a bolt out of the blue." Jacobsen, 55, interviewed in his home in Huntington Beach, Calif., said the victims should not have been in Lebanon.

Jacqueline Valente, freed in Beirut in April after more than two years as a hostage, was sentenced Wednesday to two months in a French prison for taking two daughters from her ex-husband in defiance of a custody ruling. Prosecutors had requested only a one-month suspended sentence during the hearing in Toulon, but the presiding judge, Andre Fortin, decided to impose the harsher penalty.

Joseph Cicippio Jr., son of an American held hostage in Lebanon, has died, apparently of a heart attack, hospital officials said Monday. Cicippio, 35, was taken to North Penn Hospital in Lansdale, north of Philadelphia, early Sunday morning and died a short time later, said a nursing supervisor who refused to give her name. Joseph Cicippio Sr. was taken hostage in Beirut on Sept. 12, 1986. His son is the third member of his family to die since he was taken into captivity.

A smirking gunman held up to 36 people hostage in a college lecture hall for nearly two hours Wednesday before he was jumped and disarmed by five students, one of whom was shot and wounded in the struggle. Ralph Tortorici, a 26-year-old psychology major at the State University of New York at Albany, shouted: "Government experiments!" as he was hustled into a police car. He faces attempted murder and other charges, police said.

President Reagan told the Associated Press Managing Editors Assn. today that his Administration will not pressure the Kuwaiti government to release 17 terrorist prisoners in exchange for six Americans held hostage in Lebanon because that would "place many more innocent Americans at risk."

According to Thomas Martin, he was doing his level best to rescue the hostage, even at the price of partying all night with liquor, marijuana and girls. According to the district attorney's office, Martin was threatening to dismember the hostage unless he was paid a ransom of $200. The hostage: a 1985 Lincoln Towncar.

Three San Diego men were arrested Saturday in connection with robbery, kidnaping, burglary and other charges after holding five people hostage in a Hillcrest home, authorities said. Police believe one woman was raped during the incident, which began about 3 a.m., when a 77-year-old woman who lives in the 100 block of Robinson Avenue was awakened by noise in her home. She told police she came downstairs and saw a number of people, some who lived there, some who did not and some with guns.

The wife of hostage American Jesse Turner said today that as an Arab, she could not heed his plea that she and three other wives go to Israel to discuss a swap of their husbands for Arabs held there. "I am an Arab and Mrs. Feryal Polhill is an Arab," Badr Turner, 35, a Lebanese, said. "We cannot go to Israel." Feryal Polhill asked: "How would it be possible for me to go to Israel? I do not even consider going to Israel because it is against my belief in the Arab cause."