
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 9, 1990                   TAG: 9006090319
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BOSTON                                LENGTH: Short

ARSENIC FOUND IN BLOOD OF FREED HOSTAGE REED

Arsenic was found in freed hostage Frank Reed's system shortly after his return to the United States, hospital officials announced Friday.

Reed, 57, has been undergoing treatment at the Malcolm Grow Medical Center at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland since soon after his release from 44 months in captivity in Lebanon April 30.

Hospital officials were unavailable to say how much arsenic was found, how it affected his health or how it might have gotten in Reed's system.

Reed's arsenic levels were abnormally high, Reed's attorney, Bob Woolf, said in a telephone interview from Miami.

"This was beyond what was normal, believe me," Woolf said. "It was enough to be concerned about." Woolf refused to comment on the possible source of the arsenic. He said some of the toxin had been eliminated from Reed's body since he began medical treatment, but traces remained. - Associated Press

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