Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courtroom last week. The dramatic defiance drowned out the sobbing of shocked relatives, but only for a moment. Two of the men, Guillermo Novo Sampol, 39, and Alvin Ross Diaz, 46, had just been found guilty of first-degree murder in the bomb-killing in Washington of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier, 44, on Sept. 21, 1976. A third, Guillermo's brother Ignacio, 40, was convicted of perjury and failure to report a crime...
...responsible for an ugly outburst of anti-Americanism, long latent in Iran but never before so viciously expressed. At midweek, leftist gunmen attacked the U.S. embassy in downtown Tehran (see following pages), taking 70 American prisoners, killing one Iranian employee and injuring two Marines. One of the prisoners was Ambassador William Sullivan. Forces loyal to Khomeini were able to lift the siege after two hours, but the Carter Administration (as well as the British and several other Western governments) concluded that the lives of foreigners in Iran could no longer be protected. On Friday, in the first stage...
...band of 100 Iranian leftists attacked the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Barrages of machine-gun and automatic-weapons fire raked the compound. Two Marine guards were wounded and an Iranian embassy employee was killed. After two hours of skirmishing, the attackers seized the embassy and took its occupants, including Ambassador William H. Sullivan, as prisoners. It is likely that only the intervention of forces loyal to the Ayatullah, who responded to Sullivan's desperate call for help, prevented even more mayhem...
...escorting them down the stairs to the compound and eventually setting them free. But the rescuers, who had been dispatched to the embassy in response to Sullivan's repeated, desperate phone calls, were not able to fend off the mob that had gathered in the compound. Among others, Ambassador Sullivan was jostled, though not seriously injured, before the pro-Khomeini forces managed to clear the compound...
...that was the case, the maneuver failed. In Washington, the Administration, already preoccupied with the murder of Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Afghanistan (see following story), thought for a while that it had a double crisis on its hands. Only when he learned at dawn Wednesday that the leftist invaders had been expelled from the embassy and that Khomeini loyalists were shielding the American compound did Carter decide to proceed with his state visit to Mexico...