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- WORLD, Page 53World NotesHOSTAGESLetting Go Piecemeal
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- Another American hostage, Jesse Turner, 44, was released in
- Beirut last week, and once again the process followed a
- familiar pattern. One of the pro-Iranian Lebanese groups
- provided new evidence concerning the fate of one of the five
- Israeli soldiers still unaccounted for in Lebanon. Jerusalem
- responded by ordering the release of 15 Lebanese Shi`ite
- prisoners. That gesture, in turn, led to the freeing of Turner,
- a former mathematics professor who had been held for four years
- and nine months.
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- The pace of release is quickening now. The fear, however,
- is that if the process is not completed by Dec. 31, when U.N.
- Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar leaves office, the
- momentum may again be lost.
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