Terry Anderson, the American journalist who had been the longest-held Western hostage in Lebanon when he was finally released in 1991 by Islamic militants after more than six years in captivity, died Saturday at his home in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., in the Hudson Valley.
The cause was apparently complications of recent heart surgery, said his daughter, Sulome Anderson.
Mr. Anderson, the Beirut bureau chief for The Associated Press, had just dropped his tennis partner, an A.P.
The same car had tried to cut him off the day before as he returned to work from lunch at his seaside apartment.
The militants, supported by Iran, were retaliating against Israel’s use of American weapons in earlier strikes against Muslim and Druze targets in Lebanon.
Persons:
Terry Anderson, Sulome Anderson, Anderson, Reagan
Organizations:
Islamic, Associated Press, Benz, Islamic Jihad Organization
Locations:
American, Lebanon, Greenwood Lake, N.Y, Hudson, Beirut, South Lebanon, Iran, Nicaragua