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Thursday, December 12
Tribune reporter Paul Salopek, jailed in Sudan last month under charges of espionage, will be set free tomorrow, his paper reports. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, in Africa with Salopek's wife, Linda Lynch, and Trib publisher Ann Marie Lipinski, negotiated the release.