NATION : Polhill Returns to United States
<i> From Times staff and wire service reports</i>
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. —
Freed hostage Robert Polhill returned to American soil today after 39 months of captivity in Lebanon.
The military plane bearing the 55-year-old business professor touched down at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.
Polhill was released by his captors in the Middle East on Sunday and underwent medical tests and intense debriefing at a U.S. Air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany.
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