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...film, of all the personal stories and conflicts, of all the facts considered, none can match the sheer power of the scenes showing the explosion of the atomic bombs themselves. Some are in color, and the strange mixture of purple smoke and orange flame billowing into a mushroom cloud creates an image unique in its ability to arouse fear and fascination. All the long hours of work, the years of isolation in New Mexico, are compressed into nine seconds of radioactive horror...
...first few days, Jones was kept upstairs in the embassy residence. Then he and about 25 other hostages were moved to the windowless basement, which they nicknamed the Mushroom...
When Jones and the others were moved from the Mushroom to the embassy's chancellery on March 17, 1980 -his wife's birthday-he learned for the first time that the eight other black male hostages had been released in late November. Jones is convinced that the militants did not free him as well because they suspected him of espionage. Says...
...harassment let up also, at least for some hostages. Richard Morefield, 51, consul general at the embassy, who was confined in the Mushroom until late March, was moved several times after that; one transfer was to a maximum-security prison, but another was to an apartment block...
...themselves were embarrassed and soon stood outside. So a hostage would scribble a quick note on toilet paper and leave it to be read by the next captive to enter the bathroom. The hostages also worked out a code of raps with the knuckles on a wall at the Mushroom, as do prisoners the world over...