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BOSTON, MASS.
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fl woBaitais kidnaped
TEL AVIV - Two members of
the. Bahal faith have been kid-
napediiflran and 130 other Ba-
hais were held captive last week in
an attempt to get them to recant
their faith, a Bahai official .sa id yes-
terday. Donald Barrett, secretary
general of the Bahaf World Center
In Haifa, where the group has its
headquarters, said Jahanglr Hi-
dayatl and Ahmad Bashirl, whom
he decribed only as “prominent Ba-
hais.” were kidnaped in Tehran
last weekend. Their disappear-
arices follow the excecutions of 17
Bahai men, women and children In•
the last three weeks. Iranian au-
thorities denied involvement in the
k1 iipin s , Barrett said (APF F
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