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...hostages held by militants at the U.S. embassy in Tehran sank into increasing isolation following the departure of the American newsmen. John Thomas, a publicity-hungry American Indian militant from South Dakota, claimed to have met with one of the hostages during his visit to Tehran, but gave few helpful details of the encounter. No other outsider has seen them since a group of U.S. clergymen visited the embassy at Christmas...
...American newsmen are booted from Iran and Afghanistan...
First came an announcement from Iran's Revolutionary Council that U.S. journalists in the country must leave. Three days later in neighboring Afghanistan, the new Soviet-installed regime announced it would follow suit. By week's end the U.S. newsmen in both countries were being deported, and the American press faced the dismal prospect of covering the world's two most volatile stories from afar. Tales of two expulsions...
...American journalists in the estimated 300-member foreign press corps in Tehran, came early last week from Abol Ghassam Sadegh, Iran director general for the foreign press in the Ministry of National Guidance. He also forbade Iranian employees of U.S. news organizations to file dispatches, and warned that European newsmen too could be expelled for any "biased" reporting. The Americans, said Sadegh, "were out of touch with reality and "unfair to Iran and its revolution." He speculated that their departure might actually cool the hostage crisis by shifting press attention elsewhere. At least one senior Western diplomat agreed: "Perhaps, just...
Coach Malavasi survived, barely ("This is the roughest season I've ever been through"), and so did Mrs. Rosenbloom, despite the efforts of the Los Angeles press. The Times assigned two newsmen to poke into her past for a month and reported that she had been married five times before wedding the Rams' owner and that her first marriage had been annulled when she was 15½ years...