The World - News from March 14, 1986
France’s unofficial mediator in that nation’s Lebanese hostage crisis left Beirut for Damascus, Syria, after reporting some progress in his efforts to win the freedom of eight French captives taken hostage by Muslim militants. Razah Raad, a Lebanese-born heart specialist, said that after his Damascus visit, he will return to France.
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