Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention from reporters -from one-on-one interviews to ABC News' rebroadcast of its excellent three-hour account of the secret negotiations to free the hostages-bewildered several of them. Donald Cooke, the former vice consul in Tehran, described the public and media hoopla as "very strange," but not unpleasant. "Being in prison-that was a difficult adjustment. But getting out and being free is going to be very, very easy to get used...
...began. Fresh details of the early days of captivity were disclosed last week by some of the eight black men and five women who were released after 16 days by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini as a propaganda move, and by Richard I. Queen, 29, the embassy's vice consul, who was let go last July because he was suffering from multiple sclerosis...
...harassment let up also, at least for some hostages. Richard Morefield, 51, consul general at the embassy, who was confined in the Mushroom until late March, was moved several times after that; one transfer was to a maximum-security prison, but another was to an apartment block...
...their ultimate fate. Would they be freed? Tried as spies? Executed? For their families at home, the months of recurring rumors of imminent release, fed by Iranian propagandists, had been painful too. Even on the verge of the actual release, noted Dorothea Morefield of San Diego, whose husband is consul general of the captive U.S. embassy: "Everybody's walking around with their fingers crossed." Said Susan Cooke of Memphis about her hostage son Donald: "I just want to grab him and hang on for dear life...
...Romain Gary, 66, Lithuanian-born hero of the Free French, diplomat and novelist (The Roots of Heaven, Lady L), whose former wife, Actress Jean Seberg, committed suicide last year; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Paris. Gary met Seberg, his second wife, while serving as France's consul general in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. They were divorced in 1970. Last year he charged that the FBI had brought on her miscarriage and eventual suicide by leaking a story that falsely claimed she was pregnant by a member of the Black Panther Party. In a final note...