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Name: Terry Waite
Birth Date: May 31, 1939
Place of Birth: Styal, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: clergyman

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Terry Waite (born 1939), an official of the Church of England, made three trips to Lebanon in an effort to free westerners held hostage there. On his third try in 1987, he himself was taken hostage and not freed until almost five years later. Even...


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The son of a village policeman, Waite was educated at the local Stockton Heath Secondary Modern school, where he became Head Boy. Although his parents were only nominally religious, he showed a commitment to Christianity from an early...


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Today is Saturday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2008. There are 354 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 12, 1948, the Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school...
 


 

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