Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before his flight home, Carter stood at a small lectern at Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt. His face frozen in rage and his voice cracking, he declared: "The acts of barbarism that were perpetrated on our people by Iran can never be condoned. These criminal acts ought to be condemned by all law-loving, decent people of the world. It has been an abominable circumstance that will never be forgotten." He denounced the captors as "terrorists" who had committed a "despicable act of savagery." Still livid as he penned a report to the new President, while flying back across...
Airborne again and on their way to Frankfurt, the Americans were given fur-trimmed parkas to replace their skimpy jackets and raincoats. The mood grew more festive as more bottles were opened to celebrate the Americans' return to U.S. sovereignty, made tangible by the comfort of the military planes. The men hugged each other; the two women were both hugged and kissed. As they passed over France, air controllers radioed: "Welcome to French airspace. We praise the Lord for your return...
...cover the stories, pulling many staffers off other assignments. Says Ernest Leiser, CBS vice president for special events and political coverage: "We had to cannibalize the rest of CBS news in order to do it." The Associated Press and United Press International had hundreds of reporters in Washington, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Algiers, as well as in dozens of American towns where relatives of the hostages awaited their release...
...take them to Algiers, thus confirming the Americans' release and setting the exchange of money into motion. Two U.S. C-9A Nightingale hospital planes from Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany would then pick up the ex-hostages in Algiers for the roughly two-hour flight to Frankfurt, near the U.S. Air Force's 235-bed hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, America's best military hospital in Europe. Said a surgeon there: "Officially, we still don't even know if the hostages will be coming here. Unofficially, a wing is reserved, beds are made, fresh...
...case. But it seemed that way to campaign officials on both sides. Hours after the Majlis vote, early Sunday morning by U.S. time, hostage families were telephoned by the State Department and told to be prepared for a breakthrough. Many of them made ready to fly to Frankfurt and meet the hostages at their presumed arrival point, an Air Force base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Then, as had happened so many times before, expectations sank back to earth. The Majlis said that the hostages would be released in groups as conditions were met, and Muskie rejected any piecemeal return...