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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...
...freedom for Journalist Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland, the acting dean of agriculture at Beirut's American University, now looks far away. The White House had once hoped that both would be released, along with Jacobsen, on the eve of last week's congressional elections, giving the Republicans a big plus. As it turned out, Jacobsen was let go a day early and Anderson and Sutherland not at all. Says a senior Administration official: "This ended the possibility, at least for now, of two more releases. That possibility has dried...
Terry Waite voices more or less the same view. The Anglican envoy returned to Britain last week grumbling angrily that international power games were complicating his efforts to win freedom for Anderson and Sutherland. Waite said he intends to disappear into the English countryside for a while and wait for some indication that a return to Beirut would be productive. He may have to wait quite a while. And it does not seem likely that the U.S. can soon resume contacts with Iranian officials of any rank concerning geopolitical questions. Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi sneered last week that...
Jacobsen thus became the first of seven Americans who had been still missing in Lebanon to win freedom, and there were hopes Thomas Sutherland might soon be next. Jacobsen's release followed a period of intense and secretive negotiations between officials of Islamic Jihad (Holy War), a shadowy terrorist organization known to be holding at least two other Americans, and Anglican Envoy Terry Waite, the Englishman who had helped win the freedom of two American churchmen who had been held captive in Lebanon, one 13 months ago, one as recently as four months...
...hostages, like 13 other foreigners held by various extremist groups, were captured randomly in the chaotic city, and have served as unhappy pawns in the larger game of Middle East politics. Besides Jacobsen and Sutherland, American University's acting dean of agriculture, the Islamic Jihad had also captured Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press. The same terrorist group also took William Buckley, political officer of the U.S. embassy, and claims to have killed him, though no body has ever been found. As a price for freeing its captives, Islamic Jihad has demanded the release...