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WORLD, Page 38World NotesCAPTIVITYHomeward Bound
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.
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.