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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will the Tehran hostages recover from their ordeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Trauma of Captivity | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Some of the ex-hostages of 1977 still suffer from panic attacks and phobias connected with their relatively brief ordeal. Lillian Shevitz of B'nai B'rith says the Iranian crisis has triggered an overwhelming depression by bringing up painful memories of the Hanafi takeover. That pain, she says, "will be with us a long, long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Trauma of Captivity | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Last week a climax to the hostages' ordeal, by either their trial or release, seemed closer. Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told Western reporters that "as soon as possible" the government would announce the hostages' fate. Many will be released, he said, but an undisclosed number will be tried as spies. The trials will be conducted by the same revolutionary tribunals that have sentenced some 630 Iranians to execution. Said Ghotbzadeh: "Those who can be proved not to have consciously engaged in espionage will be freed." Asked if any of the hostages convicted would be sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Hostages in Danger | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...politics and varied cultures. She has followed the election campaign of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, covered a public flogging in Rawalpindi and finally traveled to Islamabad for her appointment with danger. "It was not quite the way I had planned to spend Thanksgiving," she says of her ordeal. "But I am really in the spirit of the holiday now. When you think you will either be shot on a roof or roasted in a steel vault, but then escape, you have learned something about how to be thankful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...bathroom and all sorts of problems." With this torrent of words, in a voice breaking with emotion, Elizabeth Montagne, 42, one of the 13 U.S. hostages released from the U.S. embassy in Tehran last week, provided an insight into the continuing ordeal of the remaining 49 Americans being kept prisoner in the embassy. Montagne's comments were made at a bizarre news conference organized in the U.S. embassy compound by the hostages' captors before the release of the Americans. Once out of Iran, all 13 agreed to say no more about their harrowing experience until their fellow Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bound for Hours, Facing the Walls | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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