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...still missing in Lebanon to win freedom, and there were hopes Thomas Sutherland might soon be next. Jacobsen's release followed a period of intense and secretive negotiations between officials of Islamic Jihad (Holy War), a shadowy terrorist organization known to be holding at least two other Americans, and Anglican Envoy Terry Waite, the Englishman who had helped win the freedom of two American churchmen who had been held captive in Lebanon, one 13 months ago, one as recently as four months...
...toyed from time to time with the idea of being ordained, but so far he has decided to remain a layman. Nonetheless, his career has almost always been in church affairs. After studying theology at London's Church Army College, he worked as a lay training adviser to the Anglican Bishop of Bristol. In 1968 he headed for Uganda to become an adviser to the local archbishop. Even then his life was infected with a dash of danger. In 1971 he and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were held at gunpoint for some hours during...
...months later, Waite began the shuttle diplomacy between London and Beirut that would earn him the nickname of the "Anglican Henry Kissinger." Last November and December he visited Lebanon three times to negotiate for the release of four American hostages held by Muslim extremists. Waite was in Jordan last July when one of them, Father Lawrence Jenco, was released, leading to speculation that the stocky envoy had once again had a hand in the affair. But Waite's appeals on behalf of two French captives and the remaining U.S. hostages, whose number in recent months has grown to seven, went...
Waite's religious work has not been confined to the Anglican Church. Between 1972 and 1979 he served in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican on African missionary activities. He returned to London in 1980 to accept his current post with Runcie, thus becoming the first layman to be a personal aide to an Archbishop of Canterbury. While the job description called for someone who could handle mail and maintain links between the Archbishop and his 70 million-strong Anglican following around the world, Waite was not cut out for a desk job. The towering...
Having served both the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches, Waite has the advantage of appearing religious but not doctrinal. He also has an appreciation for the religious aspects of political confrontations, be they in Libya, Iran or Lebanon. When he met with Gaddafi in December 1984, the two men debated, among other things, the effect of Greek philosophy on Islam and Christianity. Sensibly, when Waite first arrived in Beirut last year, he quickly noted the sufferings of Lebanon's community of some 1 million Shi'ites...