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Shrouded in mist and falling snow, the blue-and-white Kuwait Airways A-310 Airbus looked as if it had been scuttled and abandoned in a remote corner of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. Most of the shades were tightly drawn, and there were few signs of life within. But Kuwaitis monitoring air-to-ground radio broadcasts picked up bloodcurdling sounds from the jet: they were the anguished shrieks and hysterical crying of a man being tortured and maimed. For those watching the tense drama developing, there were glimpses of gun-toting youths with checkered Arab headcloths drawn over their...
...derisive float at last month's fifth-anniversary parade showed cartoonish effigies of Uncle Sam and a Soviet soldier struggling for control of the globe, and passengers landing at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport are still greeted by a sign that taunts, THE U.S. CANNOT DO A DAMNED THING...
Tumultuous mobs surged around the red brick walls of the French embassy in Tehran, demanding "death" for President François Mitterrand. Diplomats and businessmen and their families tried to get out, but as the first contingent of 61 arrived at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport at 5:30 a.m. one day last week, a gang of Iranian militants blocked their way. Revolutionary authorities offered assurances that the evacuees would be released this week. But Ayatullah Ali Meshkini, one of his country's leading mullahs, warned that the incident could result in the French embassy being "taken over...
...been deposited in the Algerian account at the Bank of England for transfer to the Iranians. At 8:06 a.m. his red phone rang. He was told by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher that two Air Algerie Boeing 727 jetliners had been cleared for takeoff at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. One was to carry the Americans, the other the Algerian doctors who had examined the hostages in Tehran to certify that they were all in good physical health. A jubilant Carter asked Mondale to tell congressional leaders that release was imminent. But then, hour after hour, the flight...
...India, had been in Tehran since May 1979, serving as an administrative officer. His posting to Tehran was his sixth overseas assignment, including duty as coordinator of logistics for Henry Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy." Now, some 24 hours after Lee's plane had lifted off from Tehran Mehrabad Airport, Pat Lee, 37, waited for the phone to ring again. With her was TIME Correspondent. Susan Schindehette. Her report...