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...long ordeal and looked far older than his 51 years. But Father Lawrence Martin Jenco managed to perform the necessary rituals with distinction last week as he made his way homeward after 564 days of captivity in Lebanon. His journey took him from Syria to West Germany, then Rome, London and Washington, and finally Chicago and suburban Joliet, Ill. "Chicago is a windy city, and I want to feel that wind again," he declared soon after his arrival at the big U.S. air base at Rhein-Main in Frankfurt, West Germany. At week's end, before heading home to Joliet...
...soon as he was able, Father Jenco left for Rome, London and Washington to deliver messages from his former captors to the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and President Reagan. He was determined to do this in person in order to leave no doubt whatever in his captors' minds that he had kept his word, explained Terry Waite, the Archbishop's special envoy, who has visited Beirut three times in an effort to gain the hostages' release...
Before taking off for Rome, Jenco told a crowd of well-wishers, "Terry, David, Tom and I prayed constantly, 'I long to see the Lord and the land of the living.' " Then, in an extraordinary litany, Jenco addressed some of his former captors by name: "Haj, I'm on my way to see the Holy Father (about) what we discussed . . . Said, I thank you for your last-minute counsel that I will need to be an ambitious person to sustain the final hours of release. Said, I pray no one else will have to be an ambitious person." He also...
...meantime, Father Jenco proceeded to Rome for an audience with the Pope, to London for a meeting with Archbishop Runcie and on to Washington to see Reagan. He also carried messages for the families of the remaining hostages, he said, though these were not so much letters as "messages from the heart." On Saturday he was due to reach Joliet at last, for a celebration and a reunion with some 45 more family members...
Last year, a U.S. official in Washington said Howard may have been identified as a Soviet agent by Vitaly Yurchenko, a former high-ranking KGB official who defected in Rome but later returned to the Soviet Union...