The World - News from July 10, 1985
President Reagan ruled out a military mission to free seven kidnaped Americans in Lebanon because their locations and captors are not known and a rescue effort could mean “bringing home a body instead of a human being.” Reagan told a group of regional editors and broadcasters at the White House that “we’re using every effort that we can to bring them back,” and he denied that the Administration has adopted an “out of sight, out of mind” approach as some relatives of those missing have suggested.
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