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...least 26 foreigners, including Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite, are also believed held by Shiite Moslem extremists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Family, Friends Commemorate Hostage | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

...halls of power that honeycomb the sacred ground under the cathedral in Canterbury. He was the golden boy, the whiz kid, the man the archbishops turned to before risking a dangerous political maneuver. He walked the path of God. Name: Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Carrying the Waite: | 3/7/1987 | See Source »

...hour, Washington kept the Sixth Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean. The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and six other warships were ordered to leave the port of Haifa in Israel after a six-day call, and resumed sea patrol. Meanwhile, anxiety deepened further over the fate of Anglican Envoy Terry Waite, who vanished last month while seeking freedom for the American captives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages Stalemate in a Tormented Land | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...loaded with flour were killed when they tried to drive the vehicle into Burj el-Barajneh and were blasted with Amal rockets. Militia officials claimed that the truck was also carrying ammunition for the P.L.O. Then on Friday, after the Amal had agreed to a cease-fire, an Iranian envoy riding in a small U.N. convoy of trucks and an ambulance was killed when the vehicles were halted by rocket and machine-gun fire just outside the camp's main gate. Finally, in the early hours of Saturday morning, three trucks carrying 15 tons of flour and two tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Brink of Cannibalism | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...waving to passersby. Still later ash-Shiraa, the Lebanese newspaper that first broke the story of the secret talks between Iran and the U.S., reported that Waite was likely to be released sometime this week. Lebanese Leader Nabih Berri made a similar predication. But for the moment, the Anglican envoy's whereabouts were unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Gunboat Diplomacy | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

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