The World - News from Oct. 7, 1985
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut says it is investigating reports that an American who vanished in Lebanon last month, reportedly while doing research for a book on drug smuggling, may have been kidnaped. The embassy said there is no apparent link between the reported abduction of Steven James Donahue and the kidnaping of other Americans by Islamic extremists. A spokesman declined to comment on Beirut press reports that Donahue was a U.S. drug agent and was seized by Christians.
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