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...They weren't human or inhuman. They were nonhuman." That was how French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, quoting fellow hostage Michel Seurat, , described the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad terrorists who held him hostage for three years. The wrenching account of his kidnaping, captivity and release appeared last week in L'Evenement du Jeudi, the French newsmagazine Kauffmann worked for when he and French Researcher Seurat were abducted...
...Beirut the ordeal of the three French hostages ended as abruptly as it had begun. Last Wednesday evening a Mercedes roared up to the Summerland Hotel, carrying Diplomats Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine and Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who had been held captive since 1985. Syrian security forces hustled the men to Beirut International Airport, and by the next morning they arrived in Paris for a joyous reunion with their families...
...Lebanese hostages, liberation was the end of a nightmare that began with their capture by the terror group Islamic Jihad. "We didn't live," said Kauffmann in Paris. "We survived." The captives were kept in chains for months at a time and were repeatedly moved, sometimes in sealed coffins. But their American counterparts came in for worse treatment. Kauffmann was reported to have said last week that when he was briefly imprisoned with American Educator Frank Reed, his fellow captive was so badly beaten, perhaps after an escape attempt, that he was unable to rise from the floor...
...group threatened to kill kidnapped American and French hostages if any attempt was made to storm the plane. A statement from the Islamic Jihad terrorist group was delivered to the Reuters news agency in West Beirut, along with photographs of journalists Terry A. Anderson, an American, and Jean-Paul Kauffmann of France...
...from time to time, made compensatory payments to selected executives where the corporation would benefit as, for example, by the early retirement of an executive from a position which would provide an opportunity for executive succession planning." Senior Vice President Lawrence G. Rawl, 56, has been nominated as Kauffmann's successor. Exxon has not yet named Cox's replacement...