The World - News from Nov. 3, 1985

In an interview with the government newspaper Izvestia, three Soviets who were held hostage in Beirut said that they didn’t know until their release that a fourth kidnap victim had been killed. Soviet Embassy physician Nikolai Sversky said that he and consular secretary Arkady Katkov tried unsuccessfully to escape from the group of men who kidnaped them Sept. 30. Katkov, who was isolated from the others and slain by the kidnapers two days later, was wounded in the leg during the escape attempt, Sversky said.