Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:13:22 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;AMERICAN SCENE;SOUTH \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Ex-hostage laments public's forgetfulness NEW ORLEANS - Former hostage Thomas M. Sutherland says he's amazed to find that some people need to be reminded of who he is and what happened to him - even though he's been free less than a year. "Some of them have even forgotten who the hostages were and what it was all about," he said Sunday. Mr. Sutherland, former dean of agriculture for American University in Beirut, spent six years and five months as a captive, chained in a series of dank Lebanese rooms. He was freed Nov. 18, 1991. During an address before the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Mr. Sutherland said he's doing all he can to make sure Americans don't forget what the hostages went through. Besides lecturing, the retired animal sciences professor is working with the U.S. Agriculture Department and writing a book with his wife, Jean, about his captivity and its effect on his family. S=NEW STORY Chelsea back at school for a few more weeks LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Chelsea Clinton slipped into school through the back door yesterday and avoided most photographers on her first day back since her father's election. "You missed Chelsea. You missed Chelsea," two students chanted in a singsong voice to a pack of reporters and photographers. Chelsea's principal, M.G. Lacey, called it "a normal school day" for the 12-year-old, despite the Secret Service detail that accompanied her for the first time. A two-car Secret Service motorcade dropped the eighth-grader at the back door of Mann Magnet Junior High School, a public school near downtown Little Rock. Before her father was elected president, Chelsea usually was driven to school by a live-in baby sitter, although sometimes her father or mother would drop her off. Random searches for weapons are conducted at least once a week at the school with hand-held metal detectors. But there have been no major security problems at the school this year, according to the principal. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM