Hostage Set Free in Lebanon
United Press International
BEIRUT —
The former governor of the Lebanese branch of the U.S.-affiliated Lions Club was released after 11 months as a hostage, police said today. His wife said the kidnapers paid his taxi fare home.
Police said Victor Kano, a Christian native of Syria who was abducted in September, 1986, near his home in Muslim West Beirut, was freed late Thursday night in the Druze-controlled town of Shweifat, south of Beirut. His wife said Kano was blindfolded most of the time and could not identify his kidnapers.
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