
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 4, 1994                   TAG: 9403040158
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA                                LENGTH: Short

COLOMBIAN REBELS FREE KIDNAPPED AMERICAN

An American freed by leftist rebels stepped off an airplane Thursday after a flight from the jungle region where he had been held for a year.

Lewis Manning, 53, of Midland, Texas, was handed over Wednesday by four rebels in a jungle region of Choco state in western Colombia, after being abducted Feb. 22, 1993. - Associated Press

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