The World - News from Jan. 21, 1986
The fate of three Spanish Embassy officials kidnaped by gunmen near Beirut airport remained uncertain despite a report that two of them had been released unharmed. There was no confirmation of the report, received in Madrid from the Spanish ambassador, that embassy chancellor Assad Abdo and his deputy and brother, Gaspar Abdo, both Lebanese, had been freed. The kidnapers are demanding the release of Shia Muslims serving prison terms in Spain for killing a Libyan diplomat in 1984.
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