World IN BRIEF : LEBANON : Western Hostages Alive, Paper Says
From Times staff and Wire reports
Western hostages in Lebanon are alive and well, sources in the pro-Iranian Hezbollah (Party of God) told a British newspaper. The Sunday Correspondent said sources in the Shiite Muslim group reported that British journalist John McCarthy and American Thomas Sutherland are being held in the basement of a house in the suburbs of Muslim West Beirut. Other hostages, including eight Americans, are also alive, the sources were quoted as saying.
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