The World - News from Aug. 28, 1985

Muslim militiamen hijacked a busload of Lebanese Christians bound for Beirut airport. Police said the bus was apparently seized in retaliation for the kidnaping of a Shia Muslim cab driver by Christian gunmen earlier in the day. Beirut’s again-warring militias have been seizing cars and buses for days, then trading their occupants across the Green Line, which divides the city into Christian and Muslim sectors. A spokesman for Lebanon’s national airline said that all but six of the Christians aboard the airport bus were freed after about an hour.