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...crisis was only two weeks old when Khomeini startled the world by ordering the release of eight black male hostages and five of the seven women held. (The two remaining: Elizabeth Ann Swift, the ranking Foreign Service officer in the embassy during the takeover, and Kathryn Koob, director of the Iran-American Society.) The explanation he gave, that blacks suffer in the U.S. and that Islam does not make war on women, suggested that the release was intended to soften world opinion, not mollify "America, the mother of corruption." A short time later Khomeini was dropping hints that the hostages...
Blinking back tears behind large horn-rimmed glasses, Kathryn Koob of Jesup, Iowa, sang the third stanza of Away in a Manger. Her voice cracked and quavered. "Be near me, Lord Jesus," she sang, as she asked her nieces and nephews to join in at home. "I ask thee to stay." Wearing a yellow ribbon in her dark hair, she said a shade more firmly: "I'm feeling good and I've lost weight, for which I'm grateful." Her hostage roommate at an undisclosed location, Elizabeth Ann Swift, appeared more controlled. "Merry Christmas to the whole...
...insistence that his plays were funny simply proves that the best of dramatists may be the worst of guides. The mainsprings of The Sea Gull's plot hardly elicit laughter. The jaded Trigorin (Christopher Walken), a fashionable author of about 35, is sensually drawn to Nina (Kathryn Bowling), an innocent 18-year-old. Watching Nina cradle a freshly killed sea gull, Trigorin jots down a writer's note: "An idea for a short story. A young girl has lived in a house on the shore of a lake since childhood, a young girl like you. She loves...
Eight rooms on the fifth floor of Stillman, the UHS in-patient facility, have been "temporaraily" converted to office and consulting room space, reducing the number of beds from 46 to 33, Kathryn A. Angell '74, assistant director for ambulatory care at UHS, said yesterday...
Nonetheless, it will probably be early next year before business again picks up even moderately. Says New York Business Consultant Kathryn Eickhoff: "The economy has moved from a state of disaster to just terrible." Warns Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources: "It would be the extreme of irresponsibility and the worst economic policy since the 1930s Depression to let taxes increase at the rate planned." And alongside the conservative tax cutters stood Liberal Walter W. Heller, President Kennedy's chief economic adviser, who called for a reduction of $30 billion. Said he of the fears of renewed inflation: "That...