Word: cicippio
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...Scrabble games, the Monopoly set. In a sense, as the longest held and best known, Anderson had become a symbol for all the captives, for the 17 Americans who were taken -- the three who died, the 13 others who have retrieved their freedom one by one, including Joseph Cicippio and Alann Steen, who finally saw daylight last week...
...honor their side of the agreement by delivering Jesse Turner to Syrian officials. Four weeks later, Waite and Thomas Sutherland were freed, setting the stage for the end of the hostage drama. In a key session on Nov. 30, Picco received a timetable for the release of Joseph Cicippio, Alann Steen and, finally, Terry Anderson...
...balder and with a hint of a limp. Journalism professor Alann Steen, 52, who suffered permanent neurological damage when he was kicked by his captors for unwittingly prolonging an exercise period, will remain on medication for the rest of his life to control seizures and blackouts. University administrator Joseph Cicippio, 61, whose skull is still dented from the clubbing he received at the time of his capture five years ago, will live out his life with a burning sensation in his fingers and toes, the result of the frostbite he suffered during a winter spent chained on a partly exposed...
...pace of liberation quickened on Saturday, when another Hizballah faction called the Revolutionary Justice Organization issued a communique stating that one American hostage would be set free within 72 hours. The message was accompanied by a photograph of Joseph Cicippio, the comptroller of American University of Beirut, who was abducted on Sept. 12, 1986. On Sunday, however, the group released a different hostage, Edward Austin Tracy, 60, a writer from Burlington, Vt., who was snatched one month after Cicippio. Tracy, who had spent 1,757 days in captivity, was driven immediately to Damascus to be turned over to U.S. authorities...
...Margaret Thatcher of Britain; Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany; Presidents Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Chadli Bendjedid of Algeria; as well as the Pope -- anyone who might have a direct or indirect line to Iran or the Iranian-backed terrorists who were threatening to kill hostage Joseph Cicippio...