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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riot began to burn itself out. Throughout the night, hundreds of prisoners, weary of the insurrection and fearful of being killed, made their way to the guardhouse on the edge of the compound to surrender. By morning, the remaining inmates agreed to free some of the guards in return for access to reporters and photographers. Among the first to enter the prison grounds was TIME Photographer Steve Northup, who reported: "There was smoke everywhere. You could see people giving themselves up-ghostlike figures coming out, waving white sheets. It was a nether world...
...came back. At week's end anthropologists from the University of New Mexico were sifting through ashes in the burned buildings, looking for teeth, bones and anything else that remained of the missing inmates Some 350 survivors huddled under blankets in the 20° cold of the prison compound. The rest were kept temporarily in the buildings that had escaped destruction. State officials estimated that it will take seven months and $22 million to repair the damage. Meanwhile they made arrangements to transfer some inmates to federal and state prisons in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana and Oklahoma...
...escape of the six began on the rainy day of the storming of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4. While the assault centered on the main embassy building, five of the six escapees were working in an adjoining consular section within the compound. Mark Lijek had been processing visas that morning. Among his visitors was Kim King, 27, a tourist from Oregon who had stayed on in Iran for six months to teach English to local businessmen. He had both overstayed his visa and lost his passport, with its date-of-entry stamp, and he sought Lijek...
...could to help." On Nov. 10 the five Americans who had worked in the consular section showed up at the Canadian embassy. It was not until Nov. 22 that the sixth American, Schatz, also joined the group. He had escaped the siege because his office was outside the embassy compound. He had since been staying with "friends...
...images and excitements may have a short memory. Since the U.S. emerged as a superpower at the end of World War II, certain conventions of the historical art form-the assault on the U.S. embassy and the U.S.I.A. library, Uncle Sam burning in effigy, YANKEE GO HOME on the compound walls, the vilification of the "paper tiger"-have become so habitual as to represent a rich tradition. Anti-Americanism has grown in direct proportion to American influence in the world. For Americans now to become so agitated about anti-Americanism bespeaks not strength but skittishness, a faintly disagreeable tendency...