AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM
THE AMERICANS
Edward Austin
Tracy, 60
Held by: Revolutionary
Justice Organization
Tracy, a self-described
poet and author of chil-
dren’s books, disap-
peared in Moslim West
Beirut Oct 21, 1986.
The Revolutionary
Justice Organization
later claimed to have
kidnapped him.
Bom in Rutland, Vt, Tracy flunked out of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School and spent
most of his adult life traveling. At the time of his
disappearance, Tracy’s mother said she had not
seen her son for 21 years, and heard from him
only sporadically. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut
said Tracy had lived in Beirut for at least 10 years
when he disappeared. He reportedly wandered
the streets of the city, selling books, encyclope-
dias and volumes of poetry he wrote about
Lebanon.
He is divorced and has three children.
Alann Steen, 52
Held by: Oppressed of
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the Earth andIslamic
Jihad
Steen, a journalism
professor at Beirut
University College, was
kidnapped from the
campus by gunmen
Jan. 24, 1987, as his
wife looked on.
Months before the ab-
duction, Steen told
friends he would leave Lebanon because life had
become too chaotic there. He deliberately moved
from his apartment to campus housing when con-
ditions in the city deteriorated.
Originally from Boston, Steen served with the
Marine Corps in the Far East during the Vietnam
War. He lectured in journalism at two California
universities before moving to Beirut in 1983 and
marrying Virginia Rose, an art history instructor at
Beirut University College.
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Sutherland, 60
Terry A. Anderson, 43
Held by: IslamicJihad
Anderson, the chief Middle East correspomdent for the Associated
Press, was kidnapped by gunmen March 16>, 1985, on his way home
from a game of tennis. The kidnapping was over in 45 seconds; his
captivity has lasted more than six years-lonjger than any other Western
hostage in Lebanon.
Frank Reed, an American hostage freed la st year, saw Anderson in
early 1989. Brian Keenan, an Irish hostage freed in August 1990, saw
him “some time ago” and described him "in good form.”
Anderson was born in Ohio and worked as a radio and television re-
porter in the Midwest before joining the Associated Press on temporary
assignment in 1974. He worked for the agency in New York, Tokyo
and South Africa before being sent to Lebanon to cover the 1982
Israeli invasion. He was named chief correspondent for the region in
1983.
Anderson’s father and brother died during his captivity. He has
a 6-year-old daughter, Salome, whom he has never seen.
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Joseph James
Cicippio, 60
Held by: Revolutionary
Justice Organization
Cicippio, a native of
Norristown, Pa., was
acting comptroller at the
American University of
Beirut when he was
grabbed by gunmen at
the door to his campus
apartment Sept. 12,
1986, and bundled into
the trunk of a waiting
car. Witnesses told police that kidnappers hit
Cicippio in the back of the head with a pistol butt
and dragged him away. Police reported finding
bloodstains and his broken eyeglasses.
Cicippio spent 22 years working for the
American Bank and Trust Co. in Reading, Pa. He
moved to Beirut in 1984, converted to Islam and
married Ilham Ghandour, a Lebanese woman who
worked for the U.S. Embassy. Friends safe they
warned Cicippio against living in Beirut, but he
was determined to stay and convinced that his
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marriage.
Held by: IslamicJihad
The Scottish-born
Sutherland, acting dean
of agriculture at the
American University of
Beirut, was kidnapped
June 9, 1985, after
gunmen shot out the
windshield and tires of
the limousine carrying
him from Beirut
International Airport to the university. He was the
third university official to be kidnapped.
Sutherland received a science degree from
Glasgow University in Scotland before moving to
the United States in the 1950s. He later earned a
master’s degree and PhD from Iowa State
University, and joined the faculty of Colorado
State University as an animal sciences professor.
He lived in Beirut for two years and was returning
to the city from the United States when he was
abducted.
Sutherland and his wife have three daughters.
Jesse Jonathan
Turner, 44
Held by: Oppressed
ofthe Earth and
IslamicJihad
Turner, a visiting pro-
fessor of mathematics
and computer science at
Beirut University College,
was kidnapped from the
campus with Steen on
Jan. 24, 1987, as his
wife looked on. His ab-
ductors were disguised
as members of Lebanon’s Internal Security Force.
A native of Boise, Idaho, Turner received a doc-
torate in mathematics from the University of
Idaho in 1981, and taught at the University of
Hawaii and at California State University, San
Bernardino. He moved to Lebanon in 1983.
Turner’s wife, who was bom in Lebanon, gave
birth to the couple’s first child five months after
her husband’s abduction.
BRITISH
Alec Collett, 69: New York-based journalist on
assignment with the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency, kidnapped March 25, 1985.
John McCarthy, 34: Cameraman for London-
based Worldwide Televsion News agency, kid-
napped April 17, 1986.
Terry Waite, 52: Envoy from the Church of
England, disappeared Jan. 20, 1987, while trying
to negotiate the release of Western hostages.
Jack Mann, 77: Retired airline pilot, missing
since May 12, 1989, lived in Beirut for nearly 50
years.
ITALIAN
Alberto Molinari, 71: Italian businessman, kid-
napped Sept. 11, 1985, and presumed dead.
GERMAN
Heinrich Struebig, 50, and Thomas Kemptner,
29: German relief 'workers, kidnapped May 16,
1989.
Compiled by James Schwartz with Ralph Gaillard Jr.
-The Washington Post