Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to free the hostages was in the hands of the FBI and local police, under the command of Police Chief Maurice Cullinane. Attorney General Griffin Bell and FBI Director Clarence Kelley were kept briefed, but the night-and-day negotiations were conducted by seven men: Cullinane; Deputy Police Chief Robert Rabe; Nick Stames, chief of the FBI's Washington field office; FBI Agent Pat Mullany, the bureau's most skilled hostage negotiator; plus three diplomats whose admirable intervention may well have brought about the salvation of the hostages. It was, at first glance, an unlikely trio...
...victims of Khaalis did not feel quite so well as they emerged from the B'nai B'rith Building with cuts, bruises, shattered glasses and swollen eyes. They were greeted by the pealing of bells in a nearby church where many of their relatives had kept vigil. For these hostages, the ordeal had ended...
...They told us to go to the conference room and lie face down with our hands stretched out, holding on to the feet of the person in front of us. I could tell that other hostages were being led in. One of the gunmen kept counting us and saying, 'Allah said to have 100.' They were cruel. They would say, 'For every one of our men who die, we'll kill ten of you.' They said they'd chop off our heads. 'You won't see any blood...
Benny Goodman kept his band's contagious new music around the top of the charts; he swung and America listened. Imagine one foot of one out of every ten Americans wagging up and down to the same tempo when "Stompin' at the Savoy" came at them over the airwaves. Imagine one out of every ten American pulses beating in four-four time. If it had social significance, it would have been a revolution. But it was a prescription for only temporary relief of discomfort brought on by social unrest. It solved nothing, but dancing to a swing band...
Taking them to a nearby motel, the two sisters were kept in separate rooms while they were being deprogrammed. Storey said that the deprogramming really consisted of simply pointing out the inconsistencies in the Divine Principle, the "Bible" of the Unification Church, and having ex-cult members tell their experiences to the women. Storey remembered that the pair's logic was "amazing." "They had an answer for everything," she said...