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By Nora Boustany
SPecial to The WaNhington Post
RUT, Jan. 19-Church of
id envoy Terry Waite, Who
dniped one year ago, and oth.
stern hostages are now In the
of Iranian Revolutionary
6 based here, and the Tehran
.iment has banned further in-
nent by Lebanese grou6s Iii
@gotiations for their release,
ling to a senior Shiite militia
te and some of the 23 other
a hostage$ are believed to
beeen seized by pro-Iranian
in fundamentalists here. But
sources said the captors were
ad three weeks ago after Teh-
@cided to halt -any more med-
in the hostage crisis by local
,men and armed groups, ac-
g to the Moslem militia offi.
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Captive, Militia Official Says
the custody of Iranian Revolution-
ary @Guards to prevent Lebanese
groups, families oi@ interlocutors
from reaching agreements that are
not strictly beneficial to Iran, ac-
cording to Druze and Shiite Moslem
m(fitia, sources.
e-," @-
     In the final week of December,
@'t h'esources said, Iran stepped in at
the last minute and thwarted
44 rM
he, envflv in
charge of the
ho
negotia * ns left for
Bonn ahd that was
    the, endof it."
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-a ShiiW militia sour@e
chances for a possible release of
official, usually well-in- West . German hostage Rudolf
 d on Tehran's latest direc- Cordes' and American journalist
its oper itives in Beirut, ex-,)@ Terry Anderson.
a
that all future handling of A deal had been set tq,.free
affairs would be carried out 'rdes in exchange for TWA hijack-
     In states-that iis, between ing suspect Mohammed Ali Ha
     d he governments of the madei, a ransom of $3 million and
     proof to the captors that 17 Shiite
     .t
Si,,,e star of the year, most activists held in Kuwait on bombing'
aptives have bic@n held in charges Were still alive and in good
health, according to the sources.
Anderson, the Beirut bureau chief
of The Associated Press, was re-
portedly next in line to be released,

the sources added.
On learning about the deal to free
Cordes, Iran contacted its men herd
and said there would be no deal un-
less Bonn supplied it with material
for manufacturing chemical.weap-
ons, arms and other technology.
"The envoy in charge of the nego-
tiations left for Bonn and that was
the end of it," the militia source
said.
Cordes, 53, a representative for
the Frankfurt-based Hoechst chem-
icals company, was abducted by
g,nm,ri on the road to Beirut In-
ternational Airport on Jan. 17 last
year, a few days after arriving In
Lebanon.,
Three days later, Waite, 49, dis-
appeared after leaving his Druze
bodyguards outside the offices of a
Shiite Lebanese doctor before head-
ing for a meeting with the capt ors
of two Americans.
Druz@ chieftain Walid Jumblatt
said in an interview last weekend
that he wp still trying to find out
whether it was possible to release
Waite.
Since his kidnaping one. year ago,
Waite has been accused by his pur-
TERRY WAITE
... kidnaped a year ago
ported captors to have been work-
Ing for the U.S. government, de-
spite denials by Washington and by
Waite's employer Archbishop of
Canterbury Robert Runcie.
To those 'who remember him at
the Riviera Hotel where he stayed,
Waite was a strange mixture of a
burnan.itarian and a risk-taker who
seemed bound to get into trouble.
"He wanted to show off, taking
walks along the Corniche ... and
parading in convoys of cars bristling
with guns. He was really saying, 'I
am Terry Waite. If you want me,
you know where I am, coming and
going,' " recalled the manager of a
seafront hotel.
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