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...considered acts in the whole affair. He asked Billy to use his friendship with the Libyans to get Gaddafi to lean harder on Khomeini to free the hostages. After talking to Brzezinski, Billy called on Ali Houderi, a recently acquired friend who happened to be Libya's chargé d'affaires in Washington. Billy set up a meeting on Nov. 27 between Houderi and Brzezinski and went along to the White House to make the introduction...
Inside the embassy, meanwhile, Hostage Morris said later, "there was smoke, screaming, explosions and gunfire." Bursting into the room where most of the male hostages were kept, the gunmen opened fire on their Iranian prisoners, killing one of them and wounding two others, including Chargé d'Affaires Gholam Ali Afrouz. Given the amount of terrorist fire occurring at that moment, said Morris, it was a miracle that only one man was killed. When one gunman took careful aim at an S.A.S. commando entering through a window, Constable Lock tackled the terrorist, and the commando shot the gunman dead...
...vehicles would slip one by one into Tehran and rendezvous at a warehouse that had been acquired by an American agent. During the night the commandos would divide into two assault teams. A small party would head for the Foreign Ministry building, where U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen and two other U.S. diplomats were held captive. The other commandos would drive to the embassy compound, where 50 Americans were imprisoned...
...neighboring Ghana last year, Doe has a flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses and a well-pressed fatigue uniform with a hand grenade dangling from one pocket. Newly installed in the executive mansion, Doe summoned the ranking U.S. diplomat, Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker, and sent his new Foreign Minister, former Opposition Leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews, together with a contingent of troops, to get him. Matthews showed up still dressed in the tattered shorts he had been wearing when released from jail only a few hours before...
...Armed Forces of Liberia. Doe declared that he had overthrown the Tolbert regime because of its "rampant corruption and continuous failure" to solve Liberia's problems. Mindful that Liberia has always been one of America's closest African allies, Doe asked for a meeting with U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker. He told Walker that he was aware of America's "historic relationship" with Liberia, a country founded by former U.S. slaves in 1847. Expressing a desire for elections and a quick return to civilian rule, Doe reportedly named 15 officers and NCOs-none above...