Release of U.S. Reporter Upsets Beirut Hostage

American hostage David P. Jacobsen, in a videotape broadcast Saturday, said he is upset that he is still a captive in Lebanon after the release of a U.S. reporter jailed in Moscow.

Jacobsen, one of five Americans believed held by Islamic extremists, said the Reagan Administration is interested in the case of correspondent Nicholas Daniloff but not his, CBS News reported.

The network obtained the videotape Saturday, spokeswoman Ramona Dunn said. There was no indication when the tape was made or under what circumstances Jacobsen made the videotape, CBS News said.

“The only thing I can tell you is we obtained it in Beirut,” Dunn said. She said the tape ran about five minutes.

“I was emotionally upset because Daniloff has been exchanged for the Russian spy who was working against the American people and that I was still a captive,” Jacobsen said in the brief portion of the tape broadcast Saturday on the CBS “Evening News with Bob Schieffer.”

The case of Daniloff, arrested in Moscow on Sept. 30 and accused of espionage, has become a major issue in U.S.-Soviet relations.

Daniloff, a U.S. News & World Report correspondent, and Gennady F. Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations who was arrested in New York, have been released from prison into the custody of their countries’ ambassadors.

The appeal apparently was the second in two weeks from Jacobsen, 55, of Huntington Beach, Calif., who was the administrator of the American University Hospital when he was kidnaped in West Beirut on May 28, 1985.

Sept. 16 Letter

A letter bearing his name was released Sept. 16 by Islamic Jihad, the Shia Muslim group that also claims to be holding Terry A. Anderson, 38, the chief Mideast correspondent for Associated Press, and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the dean of the school of agriculture at the American University of Beirut.

The letter asked for negotiations over the hostages and warned that the kidnapers might kill their hostages.

Islamic Jihad claims to have killed an American hostage, William Buckley, but his body has never been recovered.

Two other Americans, Frank Herbert Reed, 53, and Joseph J. Cicippio, 56, were kidnaped in Beirut earlier this month. It is not known who abducted them.