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* Mark Allan Rosenfeld; Escaped From Iraqi Forces in Kuwait

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Mark Allan Rosenfeld, 54, an exporter of motor vehicles who was taken prisoner by Iraqi soldiers last year when he was in Kuwait transacting business. Rosenfeld headed Power Car International, an auto export firm headquartered in New York City. Last Aug. 2, the day of the Iraqi invasion, he was taken prisoner and held in a Kuwait City hotel for three weeks before managing to escape with seven other Americans. They fled to the American Embassy, where Rosenfeld helped with the cooking and sanitation arrangements for other stranded Americans. He returned home last October and died July 11 in New York City of the complications of AIDS.

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