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...captors. Anderson and Sutherland were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three other Americans, Joseph Cicippio, Frank Reed and Edward Tracy, are said to be held by groups called the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar Moukhtar Forces...
FOOTNOTE: *The five remaining U.S. captives: Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press; Thomas Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut; Joseph Cicippio, the American University's comptroller; Frank Reed, the director of a private elementary school; and Edward Tracy, a writer. A sixth, U.S. Embassy Officer William Buckley, is believed to have been killed by his captors last year...
...three other U.S. hostages were abducted this fall. They are Joseph Cicippio, American University's comptroller; Frank Reed, director of a private elementary school in Beirut; and Edward Tracy, a writer. Their claimed abductors, the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar Moukhtar Forces, are if anything more mysterious and less known than Islamic Jihad...
Three other Americans were kidnapped--Frank Herbert Reed, Joseph James Cicippio and Edward Austin Tracy--and other groups claimed to be holding them. Christian radio stations and television reported the previous two days that six kidnapped Americans and two of eight French hostages would be freed...
Three other Americans have been seized in the last two months: Frank Herbert Reed, 53; Joseph James Cicippio, 56; and Edward Austin Tracy...