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Waite, the 6-foot-7 Anglican Church envoy, was last seen by reporters Jan. 20 when he left the Riviera Hotel in west Beirut to meet the kidnappers of two Americans. Since then, Waite has not contacted the church or his family...
...terrorist group known as Islamic Jihad, or Holy War. Islamic Jihad is thought to be holding U.S. Hostages Thomas Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at American University, and Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press. But when Waite, the towering (6 ft. 7 in.) envoy of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, failed to reemerge by early this week after five days of talks, fears grew that he might have become a kidnap victim himself...
...energetically cultivated understanding of global politics. When he visits world leaders, he is no longer the loyally mum Vice President; he speaks out, and with assurance. Today Bush is far less conciliatory about the Soviets than when he served in the early 1970s as United Nations Ambassador and envoy to China; a subsequent stint as director of the CIA acutely altered his views of the Kremlin's objectives around the world. Bush the moderate became more hawkish. Now he speaks out sharply in behalf of the Nicaraguan contras and is not reluctant to employ weapons and money elsewhere to expand...
Opposition forces, though, were unimpressed. The mujahedin guerrillas launched fresh attacks in eastern Afghanistan. In Washington, the Reagan Administration dispatched an envoy to Pakistan to discuss a Western response to the peace plan...
...battleground that Beirut has become, no one is safe. Two French newsmen, Reporter Paul Marchand, 27,and Reporter-Photographer Roger Auque, 31, were well aware of that last week as they talked with Anglican Envoy Terry Waite, who was in Beirut again to seek the release of foreigners held by Islamic terrorists. Asked which hostage Waite was trying to free, Marchand jokingly pointed to himself and Auque and replied, "All the hostages -- present and future...