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...there were forced to define and politicize our "sexuality" and our "ethnicity" because of a social context that is profoundly hostile to both. It was all the more telling then that the journalist should have incorrectly identified me as Laotian. My family is from Goa (an Indian province that was once a Portuguese colony...
...born in Karachi and grew up in South America. Although not ill-intentioned, the journalist's error is symptomatic of the definition of "race" in this culture where "Black," "Asian" and "Hispanic" are the only officially recognized "minorities...
...effort started to pick up in August, when British journalist John McCarthy was released. He was carrying a message from Islamic Jihad: if Israel would release more than 300 Arab detainees, including Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Shi'ite Muslim cleric kidnapped by Israeli commandos in 1989, the group would be willing to free its remaining captives. Using Picco as a go-between, the two sides began exchanging information about the condition of their prisoners...
...different reasons and at different times, some of the hostages surrendered to despair. Anderson's former cell mates recall how in December 1987, when the journalist was forbidden to send a Christmas message to his family, he slammed his head against a wall until the blood streamed down. "There were times when I was near despair," he said last week. "I don't think I ever quite gave up." Sutherland, who shared a cell with Anderson through most of his 2,353-day captivity until his release last month, revealed that he had attempted suicide three times. "I tried...
...conflicted in his feelings about Anderson. On one occasion he told the British press, "I didn't like him," while on another he told TIME, "I love Terry Anderson." Last week he allowed only that his career as a medical administrator was built around guarding people's $ privacy, while journalist Anderson wanted to know everything. Anderson says of Jacobsen that he "gave something to me, helped...