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Former AP Reporter Terry Anderson dead at 76

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Other hostages described Anderson as tough and active in captivity, learning French and Arabic and exercising regularly.
However, they also told of him banging his head against a wall until he bled in frustration at beatings, isolation, false hopes and the feeling of being neglected by the outside world.
"There is a limit of how long we can last and some of us are approaching the limit very badly," Anderson said in a videotape released by his captors in December 1987.

Marcel Fontaine, a French diplomat who was released in May 1988 after three years of captivity, recalled the time cell mate Anderson thought freedom was near because he was allowed to see the sun and eat a hamburger.
In April 1987 Anderson was given a suit of clothes that his captors had made for him. "He wore it every day," Fontaine said.
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These are events that took place when Anderson was captured in Lebanon.


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Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died

Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages, has died.
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He is best known for his assignment in Lebanon. At the time Anderson was covering Lebanon for AP he was kidnapped from 1985 to 1991.

Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.

Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his best-selling 1993 memoir “Den of Lions,” died on Sunday at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, said his daughter, Sulome Anderson.

The cause of death was unknown. His daughter said Anderson recently had medical attention for heart problems.
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Terry was a native of Lorain, Ohio, and I remember as a young kid the city doing whatever they could to stand in solidarity with him.
 
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