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...evacuation of American government dependents was ordered after two Americans were beaten by a crowd of angry Iranians in Isfahan late Monday following a shooting in which an Iranian taxi driver was wounded...
Company-chartered planes airlifted American oil workers and their families from Abadan, site of Iran's biggest refinery. Chartered Boeing 707s flew in to Isfahan airport. One convoy of 50 cars headed for the Turkish border, another for Iraq. But the majority of evacuees converged on Tehran's airport, despite railroad and domestic airline strikes. Some went to the airport at night to avoid being seen. Shirley and Bill Johnson, a Texas couple who had hired a taxi for the 260-mile journey from Isfahan to Tehran, were asked by their driver, who did not want...
...town after town, unity is the theme of crudely lettered wall slogans-unity to meet worsening conditions, unity against the guns of the army, unity against pressures to return to work. In one small town near Isfahan, it was announced during evening services at the mosque that the families of the strikers in Tehran were running out of bread. That night the residents stayed home and baked. Next morning three vans loaded with free bread left for the capital...
...have been increasingly subjected to threats, insults and assaults by Iranians angered at Washington's support of the Shah. Many Americans have received threatening letters, shoved under a door or placed under a car windshield wiper. One anonymous letter warned several American families in the central city of Isfahan: "If you think of yourself as a human being, quit your job as soon as possible and leave our country. Otherwise you will be blamed for the consequences...
Almost as nerve-racking as the worries about physical safety is the overpowering sense of isolation. Communications in Iran are unreliable, with the result that the country has become a vast rumor mill. Says an elementary school teacher at the U.S. compound of Shahin Shahr, near Isfahan: "We alternate between panic and being very blasé. Some days we don't get a thing accomplished." Desert picnics, once popular, are now regarded as too big a risk for families to take. Says one American housewife: "It's a big social event to sip coffee and listen...