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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...
Stung by such signs of opprobrium, Syrian President Hafez Assad evidently embarked on a damage-control campaign by addressing the one issue that could restore some of Syria's image in the West: the 20 foreigners held hostage by Shi'ite extremists in Lebanon. As he has in the past when it served his purposes, notably in the release of TWA passengers hijacked to Beirut in 1985, Assad asserted his authority with the Shi'ite groups and apparently arranged for at least a token hostage release. Waite, whose patient efforts to end the hostage crisis were well known to Syria...
...twelve E.C. member nations did not even bother to send their foreign ministers. A British proposal that the entire Community withdraw its ambassadors from Damascus for consultations was blocked by France, West Germany, Spain and Greece. Proposals to cut off arms sales to Syria, stiffen visa requirements for Syrian visitors and place restrictions on Syrian embassies and plane flights in Europe were all tabled until an E.C. meeting Nov. 10 in London...
...held in Lebanon. In pursuit of these goals, France reportedly was also in the midst of negotiating an arms deal with Syria, though last week French officials vigorously denied it. Still, Interior Minister Charles Pasqua told a Saudi Arabian newspaper that there was now "real collaboration" between French and Syrian intelligence services to fight terrorism. He added that France's Syrian friends were "pained and shocked" to hear themselves accused in the Paris bombings...
...Arab diplomat said Hashemi had been angry at Syria for pressuring Iran to free hostages. However, the kidnapping of the Syrian envoy only increased the pressure because Iran was embarrassed by the exposure of its ties to the kidnappers...