Envoy Appeals to Muslims
Associated Press
BEIRUT —
Church of England envoy Terry Waite appealed to radical Muslim kidnapers today to let their American captives go home for Christmas. It was his third visit to Beirut in a long quest for the hostages’ freedom.
Waite said after arriving from London that he has “just and fair proposals” for the captors. He was flanked by gunmen of the Shia Muslim militia Amal, who took him from the airport to the Summerland hotel in Muslim West Beirut.
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