European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday August 11, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3 westerners kidnapped and missing in Lebanon .v.w.v.v.v. American Terry Anderso current age 43occupation journalist missing since 16 March 1985 Thomas Sutherland current age 60 occupation College Dean missing since 9 june 1985 Joseph Cicippio current age 60 occupation College administrator missing since 12 sept 1986edward Tracy current age 60 occupation. Self described writer missing since 19 oct. 1986 Alann Steen current age 52 occupation educator missing since 24 Jan. 1987 Jesse Turner current age 44 occupation educator missing since 24 Jan 1987 German Heinrich Struebig 1current age 50 occupation Relief worker missing since 16 May 1989 Thomas Kemptner current age 29 occupation Relief worker missing since 16 May 1989 John Mccarthy current age 34 occupation journalist missing since 17 april 1986 Alec Collett current age 69 occupation journalist missing since 25 March 1985 Terry Waite current age 52 occupation anglican Church envoy missing since 20 Jan. 1987 Jack Mann current age 77 occupation retired Pilot missing since 12 May 1989 i it Itaman Alberto Molinari current age 71 occupation business executive missing since 11 sept 1985 captives relatives cautiously await news of release a by Anita Snow associated press writer relatives of hostages Joseph Cicippio and Edward Austin Tracy reacted with a mixture of Surprise and caution saturday to an announcement from their pro iranian captors that one of the men would be released within 72 hours. A gee that a great,�?T5 said Cicippio a brother Anthony. A a in a in a speechless. Boy that a great a a. A a i feel More or less helpless a Tracy smother Doris m. Tracy said from her Home in South Burlington it. A the whole thing has been so. I mean the families could do nothing about Thomas Cicippio said the family got the news in Norristown pa., from the state department Early saturday but he was afraid to Hope his brother would be freed after nearly five years in Captivity. A it could be Tracy or it could be Joe a he said. A for it could be any one of the six hostages. A they have released names before a he said. A a we be been through this so Many times. When there a something like that it always looks Good but will it turn out that Way a the revolutionary Justice organization issued a statement saturday to a Western news Agency in Beirut saying that in 72 hours it would free one of two american hostages the group abducted in Beirut live years ago. The group claimed it grabbed Cicippio on sept. 12, 1986, and Tracy on oct. 19, 1986. The group also released a picture of Cicippio 60. Cicippio was the acting comptroller at the american University of Beirut when he was kidnapped. Tracy 60, of Burlington vt., is a writer. Quot it was unclear which hostages would be released. Quot Thomas Cicippio said he and his family would remain at Home waiting for news. A a we la just wait around like we always do a he said. Quot we be been through this All this week has been hopeful until they captured the Frenchman this weekend Tracy said adding that a perhaps they mean Quot a different group islamic jihad released British journalist John Mccarthy on thursday and hours later yet another group the organization for the defense of the prisoners kidnapped Frenchman Jerome Peyraud. Peggy say sister of hostage Perry Anderson said she called Thomas Cicippio when she heard of the announcement. She said that if her brother Isnit released she would want to see Joseph Cicippio freed. Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press has been held Tor More than 61/ years longer than any of the 13 Western hostages believed held in Lebanon by pro iranian extremist groups. The hostages include six americans. A i Don t think there a a single family that ask for Joe Quot say said at her Home in Cadiz ky., before leaving for Washington Early saturday. A in fact i had made that statement to the lebanese she noted that one of Cicippio a Sisters died while he was in Captivity and another sister Helen has cancer. Say said she hoped any future hostage releases would include the entire group. A it does no to do any Good for them to squeeze them out one at a time a she Lyneham England apr after years of Little More than bread cheese a Price and curried garbage a the lebanese kidnappers began to feed their charges better Over the last year said a doctor who examined freed hostage John Mccarthy. Group capt. Fredoon Amrol Iwalla an Raf physician said Friday that despite five years in Captivity Mccarthy appeared to be a physically in excellent a a few Days of Good food rest Loving care and attention and the physical Side of his recovery we expect to be Quick a Amrol Iwalla said. Mccarthy a 34-year-old television journalist was released in Beirut on thursday. On sunday he will meet with . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar at Raf Lyneham 80 Miles West of London. Mccarthy has a letter for Perez de Cuellar from his islamic jihad kidnappers. Friends who visited with Mccarthy at the Royal air Force base said he was relaxed and in remarkably Good shape. A the real John Mccarthy is there a said Robert Burke executive vice president of worldwide television news Mccarthy a employer. Amrol Iwalla said Mccarthy complained of a monotonous diet during most of his Captivity bread and cheese for breakfast and for supper a Price and curried garbage for the main meal in Mccarthy swords. But in the last year of Captivity the hostages were Given salads and plenty of fruit Amrol Iwalla said. He said Mccarthy recalled the first bowl of cherries kidnapping shows risk faced by French medical Aid group Given to the hostages. It was a the first touch of color they saw in the Black and Gray world they had lived in Lor More than four years. They looked at them for thetic St part of a Day before consuming them Quot the doctor said. Amrol Iwalla said Mccarthy and other hostages were beaten in Lebanon when an american whom he did not identify tried to escape. American hostages Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland joined Mccarthy last August Burke said. I he americans had a radio and it was through them that Mccarthy Learned of the death of his Mother in 1989, he said. A because lies had company and Good company for the last year he is Alert and Bright Quot Burke said. Paris apr the kidnapping in Beirut of a French student working to rebuild Lebanon a War ravaged hospitals throws the spotlight on an idealistic French movement that has existed for two decades. Jerome Peyraud 26, who was spending his summer vacation working for the Relief Agency Medici is do Monde or doctors of the world was abducted thursday by a Little known group angry that other radicals had released a British hostage. Although doctors of the. World has worked in Lebanon since the Early 1980s, for much of Lebanon a civil War Peyraud is the first member of the organization to be kidnapped there. Members face Many risks however in their work in global trouble spots. Ley Audi a abductors called him a spy and threatened to kill him if More westerners were released. Medici is do Monde insisted his Mission was humanitarian. A Jerome Peyraud is a Young Man dedicated to medical and sanitary Aid to the third world a said the groups honorary president Alain Deloche. He said Peyraud had also worked in Guatemala and Sierra Leone for the group. That description is typical of those engaged in the movement whose birth is credited to 10 Young physicians outraged at the politics that surrounded Relief to civilians in the Biafra conflict of 1970. Jerome Peyraud is shown in a recent photograph playing with his Niece Nadege
