Word: fenyvesi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the U.S. Government knows little about the state of the hostages, and is saying even less, there are fears that some of the Americans may have already been broken by the experience and could denounce the U.S. at a staged spy trial. Charles Fenyvesi, one of the Hanafi hostages in 1977, writes in the New Republic that "had the siege gone on much longer, some of us would have broken down, one way or another. I shudder to think what more than 30 days of captivity might have done...
...decided to barricade ourselves in one of the eighth-floor offices. We shoved the desk in front of the door, but they started beating the door down. We opened it up, and standing there were three gunmen. My boss, Charles Fenyvesi, who was captured by the Germans as a child and then caught by the Russians during the Hungarian uprising [of 1956], asked them what they wanted. One gunman-they called themselves 'soldiers'-hit him with his hand. Charles fell and his glasses went flying. I don't think he ever got them back...