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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet when none of the U.S. retaliations brought any progress toward the release of the hostages, American anger and frustration became almost palpable.* New anti-Iranian demonstrations flared on campuses from coast to coast; three teen-agers threw a rock at the window of an Iranian in Denver, and he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

A major difficulty for the Administration was that throughout the week various Iranian authorities kept changing the terms of the bargaining. On Tuesday Acting Foreign Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The letter implied that the hostages could be released if the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

The sudden fall of Bazargan and Yazdi evoked fears that both the more radical ayatullahs and the leftist secular forces were using the embassy assault as a pretext for pushing the country sharply to the left. The small but well-organized Tudeh (Communist) Party has been held in check by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

One day, three British members of an NBC television crew were arrested near the embassy, but were quickly released. On another occasion, a deeply distraught American woman, apparently the relative of a hostage, appeared at the gates with a child in hand. She suddenly began to shout obscenities at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

(9 of 11) "a stupid, vindictive old man"?their official support seemed tepid. Asked New York Times Columnist James Reston: "Where are the allies?" Where, he wondered, are the Europeans who always yearned for "collective security"? European diplomats retorted that they had backed the U.S. as well as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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