Hostage Talks Called ‘Frozen’
Associated Press
BEIRUT —
Lebanon’s top Shia Muslim spiritual leader said today that negotiations for the release of foreign hostages have been “frozen” until after the 1988 U.S. and French elections.
Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual guide of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, was quoted in the conservative daily Ash-Shams as saying: “The kidnapers have an interest in this freezing until the American and French elections in 1988.” He did not elaborate. The groups holding the hostages have been silent for 36 days.
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