WORLD IN BRIEF : LEBANON : 2 Belgians May Be Freed, Paper Says

A radical Palestinian faction will release two of the four Belgian hostages it is holding in exchange for the freedom of a Palestinian jailed on terrorism charges in Belgium, a Beirut newspaper reported. Al Liwaa, a conservative Muslim newspaper, quoted Western diplomatic sources as saying that the Belgian government struck a deal with the Fatah Revolutionary Council led by Abu Nidal. The diplomats said the organization agreed to free two Belgians held since November, 1987, in return for the release of Sayed Nasser, held in a Belgian prison after being convicted in a 1980 grenade attack on a group of Jewish children in Antwerp in July, 1980. One Jewish boy was killed and 19 people injured.