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That too is symbolic: as individual human beings, the hostages have all but vanished from the world's sight. No outsider has seen the main group of hostages since April 6, when a number of American clergymen held Easter services in the seized U.S. embassy. There has been no reliable word on how they are being treated since July, when the Iranians released Richard Queen, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis. Queen reported that for a while after the embassy seizure the hostages were often bullied, and even threatened with execution, by their militant captors, but that early this...
...Christmas scenario for exhibiting the American hostages was cruelly strung out by Tehran's outrageous propagandists. After keeping the 52 hostages hidden from world view for eight months, Iran's squabbling authorities announced early in the week that not even a holiday visit by non-Iranian Christian clergymen would be permitted this year, a move that fed fears in the U.S. that some of the Americans were not well-or not even alive. For the first time the State Department said it had information that some of the hostages were not getting "adequate medical attention" and that some...
...Christmas Day anxious relatives and other angry and frustrated Americans were permitted to see only a fleeting-and heavily edited-TV film clip of 16 of the hostages meeting the monsignor and three Iranian clergymen. There was no sound track. While a few of the Americans appeared to laugh or smile briefly, the general mood seemed somber. Americans at home could only wonder: Why were there no voices? How did the hostages really feel? Where were the others? Fears in the U.S. grew again...
...question, "It is a dead issue now. It has no more political value." He was only admitting the obvious. For Iranians, it is the war with Iraq that has become the overriding issue in the power struggle between the right-wing clergy and moderate President Abolhassan Banisadr. To the clergymen's dismay, Banisadr has emerged as a popular hero. As commander-in-chief of the armed forces, he has received much of the credit for Iran's surprising resistance...
...soon as possible. I would not be surprised if they were let go before Reagan became President." In New York, Paul O'Dwyer, the lawyer who represents Iran in its claims against the Shah's wealth, noted that the Iranians have not asked him to arrange for clergymen to visit the hostages this Christmas, as they did last year. Though State Department officials consider such comments overly optimistic, they do not rule out a timely resolution to the hostage problem. Cautioned one Administration aide: "The process isn't stymied, but it's certainly in slow motion...