THE TRUTH HELD HOSTAGE
Terry Anderson, the best-known and longest-held American in the 1980s Beirut hostage crisis, filed suit today against 11 government agencies to shake loose official documents about his ordeal. The former Associated Press correspondent claims the materials are being withheld by the U.S. government without just cause. The State Department says it's not releasing documents because they could endanger national security. Anderson also says State told him the materials would "violate the personal privacy" of his terrorist-kidnappers. Anderson, who's peppered the government with Freedom of Information Act requests for a book about his Hizballah captors, has so far ended up with just a few tidbits, including his own dispatches.
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