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Because of the stigma attached to having dark skin, a black black woman had to do many things to find a place for herself. One possibility was to attach herself to a light-skinned woman, hoping that some of the magic would rub off on her. A second was to make herself sexually available, hoping thereby to attract a mate. Third, she could resign herself to a more chaste life-style-either (for the professional woman) teaching and work in established churches or (for the uneducated woman) domestic work and zealous service in "holy and sanctified" churches...
...their captors had divided into small rooms to serve as cells. The hostages' hands were bound, and some were forced to sit for as long as 16 hours a day, facing blank walls. Queen was imprisoned with a roommate, Joseph Hall, 31, the operations coordinator in the defense attaché's office, to whom he was not allowed to speak (though they did exchange whispers now and then). No sunlight penetrated the rooms. Said Queen: "You couldn't hear the outside world. It was like living in a tomb. I stayed in the Mushroom from late November...
Chase's action set off a chain of legal moves by other banks to protect their outstanding loans by suing to attach Iranian property. Morgan Guaranty, for instance, obtained a lien on Iran's 25% interest in two of West Germany's best-known companies: Friedrich Krupp, a diversified steel and engineering combine; and Deutsche Babcock, a manufacturer of industrial equipment. Meanwhile, Bank Markazi sued in London courts to unfreeze $3.3 billion in Iranian assets held in five London branches of U.S. banks...
...susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...
...climactic Sunday session, the diehards tried to attach some new conditions. One would have required the U.S. to grant Iranian parliamentarians free television air time to explain their grievances to the American people. But the deputies beat back this and other attempts to stave off, or at least further complicate, the negotiations. Then came the Majlis vote approving the basis for the hostage release...