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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."
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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."
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