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<text id=89TT0084>
<title>
Jan. 09, 1989: World Notes:Captivity
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Jan. 09, 1989 Mississippi Burning
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 38
World Notes
CAPTIVITY
Homeward Bound
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<p> After being held hostage for 13 months by Palestinian
terrorist Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Virginie
Betille, 6, and her sister Marie-Laure, 7, were freed last week.
The French girls, their mother and five members of a Belgian
family had been captured while sailing off the coast of Gaza.
Abu Nidal charged that the two families were Israeli spies,
which they deny. The girls were delivered into French custody
in Benghazi, Libya, but the others remained in captivity.
</p>
<p> There was also good news last week for Nicholas Nicola, 23,
of Britain, released from an Iranian prison, where he had served
two years for alleged illegal entry into Iran and illegal
possession of weapons. The release, coupled with the renewal of
diplomatic relations between Iran and Britain, raised hopes that
a second Briton, businessman Roger Cooper, 52, might soon be set
free.
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</body></article>
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