The World - News from May 27, 1985
Frenchmen Michel Seurat, a researcher, and journalist Jean-Paul Kauffman were kidnaped by unidentified gunmen on the main highway to Beirut’s international airport, police and the French Embassy said. The pair were believed to have been abducted May 18 in the Shia Muslim-populated southern suburbs; however, the news was withheld so that contacts could be made with militia officials, police said. Officials added that Kauffman was on assignment for the French magazine L’Evenement du Jeudi and that Seurat worked for a French government-run science center.
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