The World - News from May 22, 1989
Three West German relief workers left Lebanon, five days after two of their colleagues were kidnaped. Witnesses said the three, from the ASME-Humanitas agency that helps Palestinian refugees, left the southern port of Sidon by launch to board a ship sailing for Cyprus. Markus Quint, one of the three, was kidnaped May 4 and held for 10 days before being freed. Palestinian sources said the two West Germans still being held, Heinrich Struebig and Thomas Kempner, could be used as bargaining chips in a bid to gain the release of Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a Lebanese sentenced to a life term in Frankfurt for murder and air piracy in the 1985 hijacking of a U.S. airliner.
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