Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warned me, "We don't want any photographs," but as the Jeep backed through the crowd, I climbed aboard anyway. One man perched on the hood and fired his rifle into the air to clear the crowds as we careened the wrong way down a one-way street at full speed. As we neared the embassy, we heard a fusillade of shots from machine guns, semiautomatic rifles and pistols. Then came the thump of tear-gas canisters exploding and we were enveloped in a heavy, stinging fog. We jumped off and started crawling on our bellies toward the embassy...
...come to do you in. Tell Carter he's finished." People started fires to disperse the tear gas, but whenever a fire started to get out of hand, there would be shouts of "Don't burn anything. Save it!" All the while, bullets filled the air, ricocheting off the ground and buildings. Then several gunmen stopped firing and yelled to the others: "Stop! Orders from Khomeini...
...ordered people to leave him alone. Moments later, an American holding a blue sport coat in his hand was escorted from the building. Somebody rushed up behind him and punched him in the head several times before his guardian fended off the assailant by firing shots into the air...
...screeched to a halt and some Iranian air force officers, along with a harried-looking man, hurried into the compound. Looking worried, he held a bullhorn to his mouth and shouted: "I am a representative of [Prime Minister Mehdi] Bazargan. Don't shoot. Orders from Khomeini." His bullhorn was not working. Almost nobody heard him, but he went on shouting: "This shooting is a conspiracy against Khomeini. Stop shooting. For the honor of the country, please stop...
...embassy in the custody of three heavily armed men. One white-haired, older woman was weeping with fright. A middle-aged woman in blue slacks was quietly talking to her captors, trying to calm herself as much as them. A young blond woman swung her fists angrily in the air to keep everybody away from...