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Iranian-backed Hezbollah Kidnaps U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. W. Higgins

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By: Agence France Presse

Date: December 23, 1991

Source: Agence France Presse.

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INTRODUCTION

After one year of captivity and three years after his reported death, the body of U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Colonel William Higgins was finally returned to the United States. Higgins had been part of a United Nations (UN)...