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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and other key U.S. negotiators and aides had flown to Algiers two weeks ago on an Air Force Boeing 707. They expected to stay in the U.S. embassy compound, on a hill overlooking the Bay of Algiers, for only a few days. Their mission was to be on hand to give Algerian diplomats, who were acting as intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran, a quick response to any questions raised in Tehran about the U.S. offer...
...relatives of the hostages have been asked by the State Department not to travel to Germany. But if any of the Americans require long-term hospitalization, a 400-room hotel just outside the hospital compound is ready to house their families. Louisa Kennedy, a leader of the Family Liaison Action Group in Washington, says that most of the relatives have agreed to wait in the U.S. The State Department has promised that, within a few hours of their release, the freed hostages may telephone anyone they wish, anywhere in the world, at government expense. Hospital officials in Wiesbaden believe that...
...long parade of limousines and buses knifed through Peking's wintry smog just before 3 p.m. As police and soldiers kept away curious bystanders, sober-faced men and women emerged from the cars, strode through the gates of the public security compound at No. 1 Zhengyi (Justice) Road near Tian'anmen Square and entered a large, brightly lighted courtroom. After taking their seats, the 35 judges and 880 "representatives of the masses" looked on impassively as the ten defendants were led into the court by bailiffs to hear the charges against them...
...captives was underscored by Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i when he addressed a huge anti-American rally at the embassy. Tens of thousands of marchers shouted, "Death to American imperialism!" Raja'i delivered a fiery speech from a podium set up inside the embassy compound, proclaiming the hostage progress a victory for Iran. As viewed from Washington, it was encouraging that a government official was welcomed onto the militants' heavily guarded turf. Ever since the seizure of the embassy, U.S. officials monitoring the crisis had been worried that the final, perhaps insurmountable obstacle to a settlement...
...more secular, more moderate rival, President Abolhassan Banisadr, seems increasingly isolated. It was to Raja'i, not Banisadr, that President Carter addressed the first official U.S. response to the Majlis vote. And it was Raja'i who, in his fire-and-brimstone speech at the embassy compound, demanded that the U.S. publicly and promptly accept the conditions of the Majlis...