Beirut Hostage’s Sister to Visit Syria
The sister of Terry A. Anderson, an American journalist held hostage in Lebanon, said Friday she has been granted a visa to visit Syria, where she will seek a meeting with President Hafez Assad in an attempt to win the release of her brother and four other missing Americans.
Peggy Say, 46, of Batavia, N.Y., plans to fly to Damascus on Sunday.
“I hope to meet with President Assad and to give him the letters I have from the families of the hostages,” Say told reporters here.
She said she believes that Assad “will help me achieve my mission, which is to free my brother and other American hostages.” Anderson, 38, was Associated Press bureau chief in Beirut when he was kidnaped March 16, 1985.
The other missing Americans are diplomat William Buckley; hospital administrator David P. Jacobsen; Father Lawrence M. Jenco, a Roman Catholic priest, and Thomas Sutherland, dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut.
Say, accompanied on her mission by AP’s Washington bureau chief, Charles Lewis, said her plans do not include a visit to Beirut.
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