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Immediately after the capture, said Queen, several of the hostages were held in small rooms at the embassy, while others were led blindfolded through streets filled with mobs screaming for their death. Two weeks after the takeover, many of the hostages were herded into the "Mushroom Inn," their nickname for the windowless basement of the main embassy building, which their captors had divided into small rooms to serve as cells. The hostages' hands were bound, and some were forced to sit for as long as 16 hours a day, facing blank walls. Queen was imprisoned with a roommate, Joseph...
There does seem to have been a period of relaxation last spring. Some of the hostages were moved into larger and more comfortable rooms. Queen was transferred from the Mushroom to a room in the chancellery building. Its window was bricked up, but some light seeped through cracks in the mortar. Said Queen: "I can't describe what it was like to wake up one morning and see light and hear people again. I remember there were a couple of schoolgirls just walking along and talking and singing outside. It can't be described what it meant...
...come bearing gifts," says St. Ronald, "A bagful of Christmas mirth: Toy planes, toy soldiers, toy tanks, toy bombs--Billions of dollars in worth. I'll put on a mammoth Christmas show, With lights and flashes and caroling loud And as the thrilling finale I'm planning a mushroom-shaped cloud...
...presidency: in a world one decision away from nuclear conflagration, only the coolest of heads, the sanest of men, should be allowed to command our military. Obsessed with fears of Russian imperialism and spreading Marxism, neither Reagan nor his likely advisers fit that description. And even if the mushroom clouds never appear on the horizon, their "hard-nosed" approach to diplomacy seems likely to maintain and extend America's relationships with the "free world's" worst military dictators and tyrants...
Following the takeover of the embassy on Nov. 4, Queen was confined in a basement room he called the "Mushroom Inn." Several tunes a week he was taken outside for exercise. On one occasion, the customary blanket was put over his head, and he was led out of his room, but suddenly he realized he was going in an unusual direction. "I was really scared," he says. When the blanket was removed, Queen saw he was facing a wall. "I just thought: 'Oh, oh, this is the end.' " At that point, he let his story trail off, apparently...