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Terry Wait became famous around the world, when he was taken hostage in Beirut in 1987. He had traveled to Lebanon as the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy, to negotiate the release of Western hostages, but, he was taken captive himself and kept in solitary confinement for five years.