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Terry Waite  

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  • While serving as secretary for Anglican Communion affairs for the archbishop of Canterbury, Terry Waite negotiated the release of several British hostages in Tehran, Iran, and Libya before being taken hostage himself during the Lebanon hostage crisis. The archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Waite, Terry (1939–)]

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