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...tell of captivity in Iran, and the combined accounts make up a mosaic of remarkable courage during months of deprivation and degradation. To illuminate pieces of that mosaic, TIME Correspondent Christopher Redman last week interviewed Charles Jones, 40, of Detroit and Correspondent Dean Brelis talked at length with Michael Metrinko, 34, of Olyphant, Pa. Their reports...
...call anyone they wished at Government expense. In the early hours of Wednesday, Washington, D.C., time, those long-silent voices sent their relatives in the U.S. into shouts of joy and expressions of affection as the broken threads of family life were tentatively rejoined. At 2:30 a.m., Alice Metrinko picked up her phone in Olyphant, Pa., to hear her son Michael, 34, say, "Hi, Mom." They chatted for 45 minutes. She asked why he had seemed to be hiding from the TV cameramen in Algiers. Well, he said, his shirt was ragged and dirty, and his trousers...
...guards beat them with fists or rubber hoses when they were caught. Terri Tedford, 24, a secretary who was among the 13 freed in November 1979 after 16 days of captivity, told Iranian guards who held a gun to her head that they could go ahead and shoot. Michael Metrinko, 34, an embassy political officer who was released last week, valiantly denounced his captors as "liars, bums, everything" before Iranian TV cameras that were filming propaganda pictures of the hostages; the film was supplied to U.S. networks last Christmas but the Iranians had erased the sound...