The World : Swiss Diplomat Kidnaped
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Four gunmen kidnaped the Swiss charge d’affaires in Lebanon, dragging him from his car in mainly Muslim West Beirut. In Bern, a Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed the seizure of Eric Wehrli, who had been in charge in the absence of Ambassador Paul-Andre Ramseyer, on vacation in Switzerland. Meanwhile, a bomb exploded in an apartment above the offices of the French news agency Agence France-Presse in Beirut. There were no injuries.
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