Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them, none of the hostages seems truly to have given way psychologically to the captors. Instead, they fought back. At least three repeatedly tried to escape, though guards beat them with fists or rubber hoses when they were caught. Terri Tedford, 24, a secretary who was among the 13 freed in November 1979 after 16 days of captivity, told Iranian guards who held a gun to her head that they could go ahead and shoot. Michael Metrinko, 34, an embassy political officer who was released last week, valiantly denounced his captors as "liars, bums, everything" before Iranian TV cameras that...
...different precedent was offered by the Mayaguez incident. On May 12, 1975, Cambodian forces seized the American merchant ship Mayaguez and its 39 crewmen in the Gulf of Siam. On May 14 the ship was freed, after U.S. fighter jets had sunk three Cambodian gunboats, the Marines had landed on Cambodia's jungle islet of Koh Tang, and the U.S. had bombed a Cambodian air base at Ream. As soon as the ship was seized, President Ford simply declared the matter "an act of piracy," then threatened military action. On May 14 he dutifully appealed to the United Nations...
From three continents, the $12 billion deal that freed the hostages...
...days it was obvious that the two hero-size news stories were on a collision course. "What happens," worried an NBC news executive, "if the hostages are freed at the moment Reagan is taking his oath of office?" Several blocks away, at ABC's broadcasting studios, World News Tonight Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick, 41, was warning his harried news staff: "We'd better be ready! We'd better be damned ready...
...Rhein-Main airport in Frankfurt to await the captives. Each TV network had at least 50 people on hand, some from as far away as Bangkok and Johannesburg. Studios had been set up in the Frankfurt-Sheraton Hotel last October, when it looked as though the hostages would be freed. Said Thomas Cheatham, NBC'S Israel bureau chief, who had been standing by in West Germany for the past four months: "A minimum figure for the watch here alone would be well over a million dollars for each network, and at least another million for pool coverage." The payoff...