European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Navy marines get civilian hiring freeze Page 2 d final solution site to get new role Page 3 d Iceland does t live up to name Page 9 the St ars act stripes 4uthohi1eo unofficial publication for the . Akif d Fok Cej vol. 46, no. 224 saturday november 28, 1987 jj.o�, d 8693 a 2 French captives released Roger Tuque App Tolo Jean Louis Normandin a Pitolo Beirut. Lebanon a two French hostages were released safely incest Beirut Friday by their shiite mos Lem captors police and witnesses said. Jean Louis Normandin and Roger a que were released at 6 30 . The two former captives surrounded by scores of French embassy official Sand syrian secret servicemen walked separately to the main Gate of the Seaside Summerland hotel under the flashbulbs of news photographers. Officers from a syrian army Contin gent in charge of West Beirut s Security immediately look delivery of the two freed hostages and whisked them into the hotel lobby. The revolutionary Justice Organiza Tion a pro iranian group had earlier said it would release two frenchmen Fri Day because of positive indications from the French government. French ambassador Paul Blanc and his senior aides greeted the two former captives at the hotel lobby. A que 31, a free Lance journalist who was kidnapped Jan. 13, was the first to show up at he hotel s main Gate. He had a trimmed Beard and looked physically fit when he was put aboard a hotel mini bus that took him Down into the hotel. Normandin. 36. A lighting Engineer for France s Antennc-2 television news walked Down the Hill from the main Gale to the hotel lobby 30 seconds later. Syrian troops ringed the old French embassy compound while French marines were on guard inside its Walls. The ambassador and most of his staff had abandoned the compound in 1985, seeking Security in Christian East Beirut after a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in the moslem sector. Normandin was Abdul cd March 8, 1986, in moslem West Beirut and was the Only one of six French hostages kid napped in Lebanon that revolutionary Justice had claimed to s kidnapping
