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...Jerome. The often embroidered stories of their lives-and deaths-were marked by such extraordinary courage shown and cruelty suffered that books like Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend became bestsellers in medieval Europe. Each saint, often according to the manner of his or her martyrdom, became a patron for a special group. The most grotesquely appropriate, perhaps, is St. Lawrence, the patron saint of cooks and restaurateurs, who, so legend says, was grilled to death over a slow fire in A.D. 258. St. Lawrence is said to have mocked his tormentors by saying, "My flesh is well...
Carter is vainly trying to intimidate nation yearning for martyrdom. We prefer to ride donkeys, live in dire misery, but never again to become enslaved under U.S. domination." So said Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, speaking from the balcony of his home north of Tehran and, as usual, fulminating against America. He was not the only one. In Iran last week everyone, it seemed, had it in for the U.S. Some 500 delegates from 50 countries met in the capital for the express purpose of castigating "U.S. interventions in Iran." Among them was a group of ten prominent Americans, headed by former...
...expected, the authorities in Tehran remained unmoved. Khomeini, who had previously blamed the London embassy seizure on the CIA, said nothing at all. Banisadr, who had been willing to accept "the martyrdom of our children in England," now declared merely that "the brave resistance of our children" had brought "its sweet fruit." Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh insisted, as before, that the London incident was a "terrorist act," while the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran was "a legitimate outcry against 25 years of oppression." Even more bluntly, one of the Revolutionary Council's leading zealots, Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed...
...object lesson in the negligible value it places on the lives of its own people. President Banisadr announced that he was prepared to allow the hostages in London to be killed rather than accept the demands of the terrorists. Said he: "We are ready to accept the martyrdom of our children in England, but we will not give in to blackmail...
...militants who had seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran declared with equal bravado: "We do not trade plotters, saboteurs and domestic mercenaries for the subversive misdeeds of hirelings outside our borders." Their advice to the Iranian hostages in London: "Do not fear martyrdom. Resist, and victory will be yours." Similarly, Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh observed that "anyone who has died for Islam goes directly to heaven." After talking to the London gunmen by telephone, Ghotbzadeh rejected their ransom demand and threatened to have one of their imprisoned comrades executed for every member of the London embassy staff who was harmed...