The World : Search for 3 Soviets Fails

Lebanese Muslim militiamen searched West Beirut and Sidon for three kidnaped Soviet diplomats threatened with death but found no trace of them, militia sources said. Police said the militiamen rounded up more than 70 people, most of them thought to be Palestinians, for interrogation. The three Soviet diplomats, and a fourth man who was killed earlier, were the first Soviet Bloc kidnap victims in Lebanon. The search apparently was mobilized in response to pressure from the Soviet Union and Syria, its main ally in the Middle East.