Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ronald Reagan takes command and the hostages are finally freed...
...suits and let the claims be judged by the arbitration panel. The U.S. also agreed not to seek compensation from Iran for damages to the U.S. embassy in Tehran, and to prohibit the hostages from suing Iran. Actually, under the technical terms of the deal, once the hostages were freed, Iran immediately received only $2.8 billion in cash and gold (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...hostages, the confinement had been akin to an emotional sweatbox of unrelieved uncertainty over 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...
...outside the hospital compound is ready to house their families. Louisa Kennedy, a leader of the Family Liaison Action Group in Washington, says that most of the relatives have agreed to wait in the U.S. The State Department has promised that, within a few hours of their release, the freed hostages may telephone anyone they wish, anywhere in the world, at government expense. Hospital officials in Wiesbaden believe that the healthiest of the Americans might be ready to return home within 72 hours, setting off an emotional binge of welcome from Americans who have been waiting impatiently for the hostages...
...willing, we shall soon no longer have the hostage issue." With those words, Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i aroused fresh sparks of hope last week that the 52 Americans in captivity might be freed. Just possibly, said Raja'i, it could happen as early as "the feast, or the birthday, or whatever they call...