The World - News from March 26, 1986
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A telephone caller, claiming to represent the Lebanese captors of kidnaped journalist Alec Collett, told a news agency that the 64-year-old Briton is dangerously ill and needs medicine. Collett, who is diabetic, was seized one year ago by gunmen from his U.N.-marked car just south of Beirut. The caller, who asked that Britain send the appropriate medicine, said he spoke for the revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims, which has demanded the release of “all Muslim freedom fighters” from British jails.
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