Word: ones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was one journalist among the Americans trapped in the embassy-TIME's New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Ganger. Below is her dramatic account of the extraordinary and terrifying hours inside the besieged embassy...
Just before 2 o'clock, one hour after the siege began, word came from the British embassy, which could observe the outside of our building, that "they" were moving demonstrators off the compound. But "they" were not. We began to smell smoke. There was fire somewhere...
...Fire in the vault!" Amazingly, no one panicked. One official carried the fire extinguisher over to where the carpet had begun to burn. Two blasts put out the flames...
...more people came up from the vault, we gathered in knots for the move across the roof to a second ladder that went to the ground. The Marines led us over the side. "I'm sorry we have to take you through a little smoke here," one of them said to me. This part of the building was blazing from both sides, and smoke hung over everything. I kept thinking that the roof had to collapse soon-any minute...
...One of his first acts was to purge the Iranian broadcast media of Western-style artists and music. "They all love to talk," one expert says of the Council members, and alliances within the group shift dramatically from issue to issue...