Polhill to Quit Hospital, Head for U.S. Today
Freed American hostage Robert Polhill is recovering quickly after his three-year ordeal in Lebanon and will leave for the United States today, officials said Wednesday.
A brief announcement by the U.S. military in Wiesbaden, where Polhill has been treated since his release Sunday in Beirut, said no precise details of the professor’s travel plans will be announced.
Looking thin but happy, Polhill, 55, posed for pictures Wednesday on a balcony draped with U.S. flags at a military hospital at the U.S. air base in Wiesbaden. He appeared with his wife, two sons and a class of 14 children from a nearby U.S. air station nursery.
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