The World - News from Dec. 14, 1986
Two U.S. Muslim leaders left Beirut after failing in a two-week quest to gain the release of some of the more than one dozen Western hostages believed held in Lebanon. Mohammed Mehdi and Dale Shaheen of the New York-based National Council on Islamic Affairs said they will return to Lebanon after a campaign in the United States to spell out what they consider shortcomings in Washington’s Middle East policy. Mehdi and Shaheen met several Muslim leaders and senior officials in Beirut and Damascus but reported only insubstantial contacts with people claiming to represent the kidnapers.
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