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...press conference the day after the latest attack, Chargé d'Affaires Frederic Chapin confirmed that the embassy is "taking action appropriate to increasing security," but noted the difficulty of stopping an RPG. "It is designed to go through tanks, and we don't have any of them here, unfortunately." Chapin also declared that the U.S. "is not going to be intimidated" in its policy of broad support for El Salvador's civilian-military junta. In Washington, an Administration request for $5 million in additional military aid received final approval in a close vote by a House...
...contents of most safes were also destroyed by fire-producing grenades. But not all. Those in the offices of Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen, the embassy's highest ranking official, and Michael Me-trinko, a political officer, were captured intact. As a result, the militants gained a treasure trove of information. It included several compromising documents that, according to State Department officials, should have been shredded soon after Laingen received them...
...doubt whether any Americans had died in the takeover or had been killed since (in fact, there were no deaths). No one outside the embassy was really sure how many staffers had been in the compound when the siege began, and how many had been elsewhere in the city. Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen and two aides had been in the Foreign Ministry on business when the attack began, and they were held there, sinking gradually in status from diplomats to captives. Their number brought press estimates of the hostage population to "about 60"; as it was determined...
Next day Tehran TV beamed fuller films back to the U.S. via satellite. This time, ten more hostages were shown. Eight more, seen only in photographs released by Pars, the Iranian news agency, brought the total shown to 34. One photo was of U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen, who has been held at the foreign ministry in Tehran. Some clearly had lost weight, but most looked reasonably healthy. And now their voices could be heard. Some sat beside the monsignor at a long table in a sparsely decorated-and thus unidentifiable-room. Only a Christmas tree brightened...
Despite Moscow's heated public rhetoric, however, quiet diplomatic contacts had in fact taken place. In two meetings with Soviet representatives, U.S. officials reiterated Secretary of State Edmund Muskie's public calls for noninterference. Two weeks ago, in discussions with Soviet Chargé d'Affaires Vladillen Vasev, Muskie disavowed any U.S. Government responsibility for the financial aid sent by American labor groups. But Washington did not scrimp on its official aid to Warsaw; at week's end President Carter announced a $670 million credit for the purchase of U.S. grain and foodstuffs...