The World - News from Dec. 10, 1986
American Muslim leader Mohammed Mehdi, on a mission to seek the release of the five U.S. hostages remaining in Lebanon, said that hopes of winning freedom for the Americans have receded. Mehdi, 52, secretary general of the New York-based National Council on Islamic Affairs, told a news conference in Damascus that Washington’s abstention last week on a U.N. resolution deploring violence in the Israeli-occupied territories has hurt his chances for winning the hostages’ release.
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