Word: downe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dixie 14: "Someone is banging on the roof. Mr. Ambassador, they are shooting down the air-conditioning vents."
With the Marines standing guard over the hatch, two groups of women went out onto the roof, then some men, then some more women. A burst of fresh air suddenly hit me; very cold, very fresh. There was a strange glow around the edges of the roof from the fire...
When we came down the last ladder, we looked across to the embassy gates. The Pakistani army that had been coming to our rescue since the assault began at 1 p.m. finally opened the gates and some soldiers ceremoniously marched over to the ladder and welcomed us to the ground...
Worse, high Administration officials say that the hostages are now being fed deliberately falsified reports from the U.S. aimed at convincing them that Washington and the American people are abandoning them. It is, says one official angrily, "an orchestrated campaign," perhaps designed to break the Americans down before a show...
When the embassy was seized in Tehran, the Carter Administration looked for some means of retaliating and finally, as a first step, ordered the deportation of Iranian students who are in the U.S. illegally. As one Justice Department official said at the time, "It's the only bullets-or...