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- After being held hostage for 13 months by Palestinian
- terrorist Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Virginie
- Betille, 6, and her sister Marie-Laure, 7, were freed last week.
- The French girls, their mother and five members of a Belgian
- family had been captured while sailing off the coast of Gaza.
- Abu Nidal charged that the two families were Israeli spies,
- which they deny. The girls were delivered into French custody
- in Benghazi, Libya, but the others remained in captivity.
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- There was also good news last week for Nicholas Nicola, 23,
- of Britain, released from an Iranian prison, where he had served
- two years for alleged illegal entry into Iran and illegal
- possession of weapons. The release, coupled with the renewal of
- diplomatic relations between Iran and Britain, raised hopes that
- a second Briton, businessman Roger Cooper, 52, might soon be set
- free.
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