Terry Waite The Former Church Of England Envoy Who Was Held For 52 Weeks In Lebanon By Islamic Jihad Who Kidnapped Him Jan 20 1987. It's Been A Long Journey For Terry Waite From The Time He And His Wife Faced The World Together For The First Time I Nearly Five Years To The Man Preparing To Go Troubleshooting Again. Terry Waite Doesn't Look Like A Man At Peace Within Himself. He Regurlarly Covers His Face With His Hands Or Clasps Them Tightly Together As If In Prayer. He Looks Down Rather Than Into Your Face. And His Eyes Are So Red And Deeply Sad You'd Think He'd Spent The Past Few Hours Crying. The Former Special Envoy To The Then Archbishop Of Canterbury Dr Robert Runcie Was Taken Hostage In Beirut In January 1987 And Held For Nearly Five Years Four Of Which Were Spent In Total Solitude. He Coped With Such Totures As Spending Months In The Dark Manacled To The Floor In The Foetus Position. It's A Burden Few Can Shake Off. Yet You Feel Waite 56 Is Also Waging Another Different Inner Battle - That Between The Arrogant Publicity Seeking Side Of His Nature And His More Spiritual Vulnerable Side. One That His Years In Captivity Have Merely Highlighted. The Two Sides Of Him Will Always Be At Odds. 'i Don't Think You Can Be A Whole Human Being In This Life.' He Is However Some Way Along An 'inner Journey' Which He Began As Is Only Way Of Coping With Captivity. 'it Has Made It Possible For Me To Turn The Loneliness I Felt Which Began When I Was A Child Into Creative Solitude.'...church Of England 