European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 6 the stars and stripes tuesday March 17,1987 is stateside Mark 2 years of Captivity Valley forge. A. A friends colleague Sand relative expressed Hope for the release of ferry Anderson and frustration Al the continued imprison ment of he american Jou Maliyil matched off a Beirut Street two years ago is where he is because he believed in the sacredness of what he was doing trying 10 Tell the Story of a suffering people tilt in to readers and listen ers and viewers Alf Over the world Louis d. Boccardi president and general manager of the associated press said in a statement monday we owe him two pledges first thai we will serve As ably As we can the High ideals his sacrifice evokes and. Second that we will not rest until he is once again with us turning that Bright mind and caring heart once More toward spreading the truth As Best an honest reporter can know , 39. The a s chief Middle East correspondent was captured by armed men on March 16. 1985,and is the longest held of eight americans still in Captivity in least 26 foreigners including anglican Church envoy Terry Waite also Are believed being s sister Peggy say and other relative of american hostages were to attend a Newt conference and prayer luncheon at an american Baptist Center monday. Also scheduled to attend were the Rev. Law rence Martin Jenco a former hostage and Walter mean a vice president and executive editor our presence Here today is an admission of failure and our shared frustration is that we do not know mean said in remarks for delivery at the Only certainty is that in was not Terry Ander son. He did his Job wrote the truth and asked Only to keep doing mean said a free Terry Anderson writing about Theogony of Lebanon would in these two years have done far More to reflect the real grievances of a suffer ing people than the kidnappers Ever will achieve by holding him hostage and Are accustomed to asking questions and getting answers Mears Aid. Terry s colleagues inthe a Are going to keep asking questions until at last. Sour note App Hohl six year old Dorothy Wang winces us she hits discordant twang during a Thi in class session in Cortland . We get the right answer that he is a free Atso scheduled to attend the luncheon were Eric Jacobsen the son of former hostage David Jacobsen Elaine Collett the wife of hostage Alec Collett an relative of anlage Joseph Cicippio. On sunday american Baptist congregations around the nation held a Day of prayer far the hostages. Say speaking sunday at a Baptist Church in ,d.c., asked worshippers to tend a spiritual menage to her brother and the other hostages. Send them Waves of love and Comfort the them know they Are net forgotten and thai god will sustain them until they retch their Day of in Anderson s Hometown of Lorain Ohio mayoral Olejko proclaimed monday a remember Terry Anderson Day Tor the second Coile Cutic year. We had not anticipated two of these Days said Jack Lavriha chairman of the free Terry Anderson committee. We re hoping the terrorists would have some com Panion Lavriha Laid. He mint be locked tip in a cell wondering who s not.". Anderson Tost both hit father and brother to cancer last year. In los Angeles Jenco suggested at a Baptist Church that an nations whose citizens Are being held in the Middle East produce a unified hostage policy. "1 think also that we should Stop zeroing in on what Are the effects of terrorism and begin to address the causes he said. Chief among the issues is the need fora palestinian Homeland that does not threaten these purity of Israel he said. The roman Catholic priest who spent 19 months Asa hostage in Lebanon said there was Little in the news to encourage Hope for those americans in Captivity and he urged concerted diplomatic Effort and prayer for their Freedom. Sometimes they want me to speak words of Hope but i have to be honest he said. I can Only Hope that the people who Are holding Terry will be moved by their own religious convictions to let him teen vandals blamed for fire Detroit
