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Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari, 54, were released in Moslem west Beirut on Monday night to Syrian army officers, government sources said. They were taken to the Syrian capital, Damascus, where they were turned over to French envoys...
...Paris, the French government also thanked Syria...
...government, which rejoices very greatly over this happy outcome and thanks the Syrian authorities for the part they have played in it, continues the effort it has undertaken since its formation with a view to the quickest possible release of our other countrymen still detained," the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement...
Coudari and Sontag appeared shaken when a swarm of photographers and television crews stampeded into a chandeliered room in the Foreign Ministry during the ceremonies in which they were turned over to French diplomats. The crush sent security men scurrying to save valuable vases...
...release of four American hostages held by Muslim extremists. Waite was in Jordan last July when one of them, Father Lawrence Jenco, was released, leading to speculation that the stocky envoy had once again had a hand in the affair. But Waite's appeals on behalf of two French captives and the remaining U.S. hostages, whose number in recent months has grown to seven, went unheeded. Hence it was hardly surprising that Waite was back in Beirut last week, once again pressing his diplomatic mission...