Show Continued from Page 5 has to learn to take a back seat" Reed’s brother Edward says FifI might be thinking Frank doesn’t need her anymore Edward says family members have urged the Reeds to seek counseling So far they have not Cl ome things about home-- 1 coming aren’t tough And Reed is grateful for them Like the sense of “personal sovereignty” And freedom “Freedom means a lot of things It means choices You make a thousand choices each day I couldn’t make one in captivity You can’t even choose to go to the bathroom you have to be taken off your chain and led there Freedom is a helluva lot of choices You may not make all the right kinds but at least you can choose” Reed has chosen to spend time fighting for the release of the other Beirut hostages He believes Western nations should negotiate to free them Reed who became a Moslem when he married Fifi says taking hostages is an ancient tradition of the Arab world a means of talking and trading He thinks the USA should play along “The no-tapolicy is a flop a can prove to me one No big flop that negotiating for hostages and getting them released is a precursor to additional kidnappings” And Reed is driven by guilty thoughts of those still in captivity “I can’t really enjoy this freedom unless they get out” Last summer when he played one of the world’s great golf courses Pine Valley in New Jersey he couldn’t get the memory of fellow hostage John McCarthy a British television newsman out of his mind He and Johnny had talked a lot about golf Johnny had said he planned to take up the sport when he regained his freedom “It’s supposed to be the toughest golf course in the world But I didn’t get the kick the exhilaration out of it that I should have” Reed hopes that writing and speaking about being a hostage will help bring McCarthy and the others out of captivity And bring Frank Reed all the way home “I’m trying to get the anger out of myself I want to get that out Push it further and farther back just by talking about it And living “They didn’t get my spirit They didn’t strip that away” ryj lk 6 USA WEEKEND November 23-2- 5 1990 |