Freed hostage returns home for Christmas
Aurel Cornea the fifth French hostage freed in Lebanon in six months arrived in Paris on a Christmas gift from his captors and a Chirac victory. The Antenne-2 soundman, released after 92 months, spoke of enormous joy as he rejoined his wife and colleagues at Orly.
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Paris
Aurel Cornea
Lebanon
Jacques Chirac
Cornea
Chirac
Antenne-2
Orly
Philippe Rochot
Rochot
Revolutionary Justice Organization
Georges Hansen
Jean-Louis Normandin
Aurora
Revolutionary Justice
Islamic Jihad Group
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Marcel Carton
Marcel Fontaine
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Public relations claim shadows Sakharov return
Anatoly Shcharansky said Mikhail Gorbachev’s Moscow trip for Eduard Sakharov was a public relations gesture aimed at easing Western pressure while oppression persists inside the Soviet Union. Separate reports note Chinese student protests at Qinghua University and rising famine danger in Gaza, Mozambique.
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Shcharansky
Tel Aviv
Israel
Anatoly Shcharansky
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet Union
Moscow
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Sakharov
Kremlin
Libyan diplomat slain in Lebanon
In the Bekaa Valley a Libyan Embassy car was sprayed with submachine gun fire wounding no one else and killing Mosbah Mohammed Gharibi the Libyan financial attaché in Damascus. A second Libyan diplomat Mohammed Abu Bakr Dahmani escaped injury as the car fled toward Taanayel. The attack follows Libyan ties to Shiite factions amid Sadr’s disappearance and past Libyan embassy bombings in Beirut.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Bekaa Valley
Syria
Mosbah Mohammed Gharibi
Damascus
Taanayel
Mohammed Abu Bakr Dahmani
Bekaa
Col
Muammar Gadhafi
Gadhafi
Imam Mousa Sadr
Libya
Sadr
Sinking of Sudurland leaves six dead and five rescued
Icelandic freighter Sudurland sank 290 nautical miles northeast of Iceland in rough North Atlantic waters. Five crewmen were plucked from a life raft and treated for shock aboard the Danish frigate Vaedderden after a Danish coast guard helicopter located the raft. Six others died, with unknown causes. Rescue operations involved RAF Kinloss, a Lynx helicopter, and ships from Scotland Denmark Norway and the Faroe Islands.
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Iceland
North Atlantic
Britain
Royal Air Force
Sudurland
Norway
Coast Guard
David Burnett
Kinloss
Scotland
Vaedderen
Burnett
Thorshaven
Faroe Islands
Gudmundur Asgeirsson
Nesskip Shipping Line
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