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...surprised initially to learn that David had never met Anderson. What, then, motivated him to become so involved? "I was worried," David says, "that if I ever met Terry when he came back, and he looked me in the eye and said, 'What did you do to secure my freedom?,' I'd be very embarrassed if I had to say, 'Nothing.' Journalists tend to be awkward about participating in causes, probably for good reason, because by and large they try to be professionally detached and they think the objectivity of their reporting would be seriously at risk if they joined...
...country. The U.S. became a target when it moved Marines into Lebanon to support the Israeli-backed Christian government in Beirut, reinforcing Hizballah's belief that Israel's strength came from the aid and political support the Jewish state got from America. Said one of Terry Anderson's Islamic Jihad captors only two months ago: "The Israeli invasion was financed by America, which also supplied the weapons...
...doubt. Since coming to Washington, Skinner has surprised White House aides by volunteering to make telephone calls and give speeches on problems unrelated to transportation. He has gone to great lengths to woo members of Congress, in one instance personally delivering a birthday cake to Representative Glenn Anderson, then 76 and chairman of the Public Works Committee. Skinner became a regular golfing partner of Dan Quayle's, and was treated by Quayle to a $27,000 trip at taxpayer expense to the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia aboard Air Force Two earlier this year. Skinner's wife Honey...
...Terry Anderson may have lost 2,455 days of his life, but he has lost none of his journalistic instincts. "The worst day?" he said in response to a question from the reporters gathered in Wiesbaden. "The worst day I had was Christmas of 1986." A veteran storyteller, Anderson first set the scene. He was in solitary. Similarly confined but within eyeshot were fellow hostages Tom Sutherland, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan. "We had nothing, no books, nothing...
...Anderson unfolded the tale, offering his colleagues a bit of a scoop. "One thing we could do -- and my captors may be surprised to learn this -- was talk to each other." Anderson explained that he had learned sign language in high school, a one-handed alphabet that he taught the other captives, improvising new signs for those he had forgotten. On this bleak day, Anderson was relaying silent messages to Sutherland, who would pass them on to Keenan, and so forth. Then calamity struck. "I took off my glasses and dropped them and broke them," he said. "My eyes...