DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: In our "CNN 20" segment, a look back at the kidnapping of Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson.</s>JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On March 16, 1985, on his way home from the tennis court in West Beirut, the American newsman was stopped by three gunman. They spirited him away, and he's been seen since only in still photographs and video tapes distributed and presumably censored by his captors.</s>TERRY ANDERSON: But I must ask you all and my government how long our suffering and that of our families will continue.</s>CLANCY: Terry Anderson was a friend who lived very close to me, whose office was right above mine in the annex of the Commodore Hotel. And it was shocking to find out that Terry had been kidnapped. There was no explanation for the kidnappings. There was no reasoning. There was no one to talk to try to recover someone who had been kidnapped. They were simply taken away, not to be seen again.</s>CLANCY (voice-over): Former hostages paint a bleak and bitter picture of Anderson's life in confinement. They say they saw him chained to a radiator in a dark damp room.</s>CLANCY: I don't think it ever escaped our minds all those years that he was held hostage. And somehow, when he came out of it, he had the strength to survive it. I still see Terry from time to time. We don't talk much about the kidnapping, that's in the past. He is a teacher now. I think he is at the University of Ohio. He paid a terrible price for living up to his commitment as a journalist and, remarkably, he weathered it very well.
CNN 20: Terry Anderson Kidnapping, March 16, 1985