Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muskie's remark apparently was the first by a senior Carter administration official which indicated the Iranian terms for release of the hostages was acceptable, even in principle...
WASHINGTON--The Carter administration has agreed in principle to Iranian terms for freeing the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for more than a year, Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie said yesterday...
...said publicly we accepted the four points in principle," Muskie said, referring to the terms set down November 4 by the Iranian parliament. "But that doesn't tell you much about the details, does it?" he added...
...biggest question marks is to what degree the propaganda of the Iranian militants may have rubbed off on their captives. When Marine Corporal William Gallegos was interviewed by NBC last December he expressed sympathy for the Iranian revolutionaries; this aroused some suspicions that the hostages may have been subjected to brainwashing, perhaps of the sort employed by the North Koreans against American P.O.W.s, as became evident after Operation Big Switch in 1953, when 3,313 U.S. prisoners were returned. Most experts, however, doubt that the Iranian militants have resorted to systematic brainwashing. What has probably happened, at least with some...
...with which the hostages succeed in re-entering normal life will depend in large part on the tolerance and understanding they receive from their families and from the American public. The unthinking could all too easily confront them with two opposed dangers: either a hostile reaction to possible pro-Iranian utterances or excessive public adulation. Warns Psychology Professor Murray S. Miron of Syracuse University: "The more we lionize the returning hostages, the more inconsistent their attitude could be about themselves." Hubbard agrees that two much notoriety could aggravate their psychological problems. "These folks need privacy and gentleness...