Word: sutherland
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...move with Perez de Cuellar, Picco instructed the Beirut U.N. information office to announce that an American would be released within 24 hours. The announcement forced the kidnappers to honor their side of the agreement by delivering Jesse Turner to Syrian officials. Four weeks later, Waite and Thomas Sutherland were freed, setting the stage for the end of the hostage drama. In a key session on Nov. 30, Picco received a timetable for the release of Joseph Cicippio, Alann Steen and, finally, Terry Anderson...
...journalistic instincts. "The worst day?" he said in response to a question from the reporters gathered in Wiesbaden. "The worst day I had was Christmas of 1986." A veteran storyteller, Anderson first set the scene. He was in solitary. Similarly confined but within eyeshot were fellow hostages Tom Sutherland, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan. "We had nothing, no books, nothing...
...surprised to learn this -- was talk to each other." Anderson explained that he had learned sign language in high school, a one-handed alphabet that he taught the other captives, improvising new signs for those he had forgotten. On this bleak day, Anderson was relaying silent messages to Sutherland, who would pass them on to Keenan, and so forth. Then calamity struck. "I took off my glasses and dropped them and broke them," he said. "My eyes are very bad. Couldn't see." End of silent, cell- to-cell dialogue. End of story. "That was a bad day," he concluded...
...hopes callously dashed. "One night they said I was going home, and dressed me in nice clothes," Jenco recalls of his 564-day captivity. "When I dressed, they said, 'Just kidding,' and laughed. I started to cry." There were also divide- and-conquer ploys: at one point, Anderson and Sutherland were given crates of books and a radio, while two other captives were given nothing...
...December 1987, when the journalist was forbidden to send a Christmas message to his family, he slammed his head against a wall until the blood streamed down. "There were times when I was near despair," he said last week. "I don't think I ever quite gave up." Sutherland, who shared a cell with Anderson through most of his 2,353-day captivity until his release last month, revealed that he had attempted suicide three times. "I tried to pull a plastic bag over my head and suffocate myself," he said on ABC's Nightline. "But I found...