Two Harvard graduate students were among the 258 hostages on board an Air France plane that pro-Palestinian guerillas seized and landed in Kampala, Uganda last Sunday.
The students on board were Carole A. Taylor, who was released Wednesday along with her six-year-old son, Eric, and Sanford S. Freedman, who apparently remains on the plane as of last night.
It was not certain whether Freedman was among the 101 hostages released by the guerillas yesterday, most of whom were French nationals. The Associated Press reported that most of the 110 passengers still held prisoner were either members of the flight crew, Israeli citizens or those with dual citizenship.
American Jews, like Freedman, are often considered as holding dual citizenship with Israel by Palestinian groups, whether they technically hold Israeli citizenship or not.
Freedman is a graduate student and teaching fellow in English. Taylor, Freedman's fiancee, is a graduate student in Comparative Literature and a teaching fellow in American History and Literature.
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