Word: donning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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We climbed a curved staircase to the embassy's third-floor vault, a specially designed, windowless steel-walled room, about 20 ft. by 30 ft. It contained communications equipment, coding devices, and an enormous safe. It had its own back-up power generator and battery-powered radios. "They'...
At 4:11, Dixie 53 (I don't know where it was) came on the air:
Dixie 14: "Now they're beating on the vault door. We don't have much time."
When we finally reached safety, Ambassador Hummel praised us for "having done more for ourselves than I could get the government of Pakistan to do." He was absolutely right. I don't care what President Carter says. I don't care what Secretary Vance says. We came out...
"I don't think I could have lasted another day "