Terry Waite
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Sir Terence Hardy Waite is a British human rights activist and author.
Waite in 2016
Terry Waite in 1985
John McCarthy (journalist)
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John Patrick McCarthy, is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. McCarthy was the longest-held British hostage in Lebanon, having been imp
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…in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991. After his release he wrote Taken on Trust (1994), a memoir about his experiences, and…
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