The World - News from July 28, 1986

Two American nuns who were briefly held by rebels in a Sudan war zone were asked to leave the country by the Khartoum government, the Sudan news agency said. A local official said the two, Sean Underwood, 44, of Portsmouth, N.H., and Nancy Lyons, 43, whose hometown was not given, violated orders barring civilians from military areas around Juba, the southern provincial capital besieged by rebels. They had been captured by the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army as they tried to deliver food to famine-stricken villages around Juba.