Cary Vaughan is an

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instructor and journalist best known for her role in the

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hostage crisis in

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. An instructor at the

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and a part-time worker at

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bureau there, Vaughan and her husband Bill Foley, an AP photojournalist, were friends with Anderson. Following his abduction by

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militants, they worked toward his release. For their efforts, they received two of the first International Press Freedom Awards from the

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in 1991.

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