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Page 2 ? February 15, 1985 Dateline THE GAMECOCK U.S. journalist escapes captors By Associated Press BKIRUT, Lebanon ? Jeremy Levin, the Beirut bureau chief for Cable News Network who disappeared last March 7, escaped from his captors early today, according to a Beirut radio report and a Syrian source in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek. "He escaped. He is with us," said the Syrian source, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition he not be identified. The Christian Voice of Lebanon radio station said Levin, 51, had cscaped, and that he had appeared at Syrian military headquarters in Baalbek at about 2 a.m. It gave no further details. THK OFFICE of the French news agency Agencc France Presse in Beirut said an Al l' Baalbek correspondent had seen l evin where he appeared to be in good health, but was tired. Pictures shown by AFP to The Associated Press in Beirut showed Levin looking extremely tired, with his hair in disarray. AFP said the photographs were taken between 10 a.m. and I I a.m. today in a Syrian intelligence office in Baalbek. In one photo. Levin was sitting with his eyes half-closed in a room with :i nliolo hv Svrian President Hale/ Assad on a door behind him. He was wearing a lull moustache and about an inch and a half of beard. A second photo showed him drinking tea, sitting next to a bed. Levin was wearing pa jamas, with what appeared to be a zippered pullover on top. ONK PHOTOGRAPH showed a handwritten note with "Jeremy Levin" written on the top. but no date. The shaky handwriting read: "Hello my dearest wife. 1 am okay. God willing, I will be with you soon. Give my love to our family." A representative of ALP handed a copy of one of the photos to Levin's wife, I ucille, and her daughter, Clare Moss, in Washington today. Mrs. Levin said the photograph indicated her husband is "alive and well." "He looks beautiful," she said, although "a little hew ildered." I.KVIN F.'VILLI) to report for wotk las! March 7 and was J I.. . I ' I) ... I. I, .?n.wl tlNMIlllCU uy MIS ^UllCit^llO 111 I) C11 III IU IU1VC UHII MUIhl|;j?LU, He was last scon by his wife in (heir West Beirut apartment. An anonymous telephone caller to a Western news agency in Beirut today, claiming to represent the shadowy Islamic Holy War extremist group, said l evin had not escaped but had been released. I he caller said, "The truth of the matter is that we released. .1 e\in after many approaches by some brotherly and effect e sides for which we have alf respect and appreciation." world today Crime spree ends with shootout COLBY, Kan.? Three young men and a woman apparently held up a roadside restaurant, shot the manager to death and killed two "execution-stvle" in a crime snree that ended when one of (he suspects died in a shootout with police, a sheriff said yesterday. An underslicriff, a grain elevator operator and two of the suspects also were wounded in th three-county rampage in rurla northwest Kansas on Wednesday, said Thomas County Sheriff Tom Jones. There's snow end to winter Up to two feet of snow blanketed the Appalacians yestreday and drifts were up to 10 feet high after a storm battered the eastern third of the nation, closing schools and leaving 70,000 ,vY\ \ We are the Delta G \ *he ones w^? v \ O* \\|0 \ \\\&^ t ^We are coming to \ CoV?e- to establish a \ \\ \\ Come, see and he Mond)w, February 25 Ballroom A, Ru Vy A-L 7-8 pm M-Z 8:30-9 i Sign up now at Student Activities Center More mforn i""-:g-4.Ha EwBifiHSs^*^ | 1 7 ^MHIB^'^flngyipMP w^m "-.p*?- j&A ^|lij [ ;^; /..\W] ty?; JmBBBBM "W Hi wlfc flBHHBM^nnMS la 'n. ibSbBBb**E3FM'{ifr/am^<'<. Trina Leaks, left, and Chequita Jones soil utiliiy customers powerless from the Great Lakes to the rain- "miraculous drenched Northeast. jury Tuesda; Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste declared emergencies in them were 01 Lawrence and Adams counties in Southern Ohio, allowing the two-story br National Guard to use its vehicles to clear roads. Half of the state's 88 counties declared snow emergencies. "I haven't seen anything like it since 1942. Everything's just ' at a standstill," said Agatha McAfee, a restaurant owner in mavii a Murphy, N.C. , 1 ' somsts for Manila's lar, New Jersev fire kills 1. injures 14 hair after u * * reported. MIDDLF.SKX, N.J ? Smoke seeped from the rubble of a Among t paint factory that killed a man and injured 14 other people Britons, a sent a "huge ball of flames" 50 feet high and threatened to ig- operators sa nitc a nearby chemical plant. foreigners. Middlesex County prosecutor Alan Rockoff said it was Firefightei ?0UR FINEST HOUR!' vt* I I "Hold That T 1 Bj (J?jL SijB?d, live coler 17"*2; H jpf :TBjis G?m*cocki h?iid ball t* W iammas, I vear anchors. I that tiger $4.77 use [ . . BONUS: chapter. TiXoSS _r mo hit record ar about us- "Next Year is Finally He isseii House A Musical Revue You'll chuckle each time you play it an the exciting 10-2, 1984 season. JEWELRY WAREHOUSE nation: 777-5/02 GAMECOCK HEADQUARTERS AT I , , , , I (Across from Honeycombs) VL/ Pt'H Spfirigs Rd. *3102 Broad River Rd. i Ya gotta William ;;chr?K<lci iiiive for t'om months las Vmsc l<wm hooan llnirt.v im I-wSmd*"nlA iwSTW W3?5 " that most of the 18 plant workers escaped iny at the Chemray Coatings Corp. plant. Half of utside on a break when the blast tore through the ick building. f blames arsonist for fire , Philippines ? The military yesterday blamed ara fire that killed at least 24 people in one of gest luxury hotels and was still burning a day and broke out, the official Philippines News Agency he identified dead were five Americans, three Canadien and an Australian. Funetal home lid several of the unidentified bodies were those of rs battled intense heat to recover more yesterday. 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