Couple Sees Son in Iraqi TV Clip
The sight of the first American hostage apparently to be seen on Iraqi television transmissions here was greeted with “jubilation” by his parents in Palm Desert on Tuesday.
Kevin Bazner “looked good,” said his father, Ed. “Cleanshaven, neat.”
Kevin and Dawn Bazner and their two small children had been returning from a European holiday to Bazner’s job as a restaurant executive in Malaysia on Aug. 2 when their plane stopped for fuel in Kuwait city. The airport was closed while they were there, and invading Iraqi forces took them off the plane, along with other travelers, and bused them to hotels and later to Baghdad.
Initially, the elder Bazners got messages about the family’s conditions and whereabouts through the State Department, but all contact was severed when Iraqi troops rounded up the hostages.
The family made headlines when ABC newsman Ted Koppel, in an interview with an Iraqi official in Baghdad, inquired about their fate. The Bazners’ 6-month-old son has a hernia condition that may require medical attention.
Virginia Bazner was watching television Tuesday morning when she saw her son in the brief video clip, which carried no sound.
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