The World - News from Aug. 28, 1987

A high-level Iranian source says Church of England envoy Terry Waite is alive and well in captivity in Lebanon seven months after his kidnaping by pro-Iranian guerrillas, a British Broadcasting Corp. reporter said. BBC diplomatic correspondent Terry Simpson, in Iran, did not identify his source but said his information came from a person “high up in the Iranian structure.” As widely believed, Waite, 48, the personal envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is held by Hezbollah, or Party of God, the source said. “Both his captors and the Iranians are anxious to ensure that nothing happens to him,” Simpson reported. He added that his source told him that no form of prisoner exchange for Waite is imminent.