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...steps of the plane that carried her and her family back to Moscow after 72 hours of house arrest in the Crimea. But last week the world did get a chance to read what the 59-year-old wife of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had to say about her ordeal and, in a newly released memoir, about her earlier foreboding of what lay ahead...
...survival also depends on the physical and psychological resources hostages bring to the ordeal. Youth is an advantage in weathering physical hardships. More crucial, however, are a person's emotional and intellectual traits. "It really depends on what you came in with, what your life experience has been," stresses Bruce Laingen, who a decade ago was held hostage in Iran for 444 days. "Human beings are like tea bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water...
...Kidnappers and victimized nations alike seem eager to find a solution, particularly before the Middle East peace conference that is expected to be convened in October. From their distant captivity, some of the Western hostages sent word through recently released hostages that even they believe an end to their ordeal is finally at hand. Perhaps most promising of all, Perez de Cuellar -- the point man in all of this -- is increasingly tight-lipped. As diplomats know, when negotiations are truly moving forward, the dealmakers usually have less and less...
...diplomatic isolation from the West, Iran must exert its influence to gain the release of the six American hostages thought to be held by pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Maleki took an equally hard-nosed stance: although indicating that the ordeal of the hostages might end "soon," he repeated his country's long-standing demand that its funds in the U.S. be unfrozen...
Armen Boyajian, a respected voice coach, says he tries to prepare his students for what he calls "the ordeal of a career. You hope that after the young singer gets out into the world, he will encounter conductors who understand the voice. Some are ruthless -- to them the voice is just another percussion instrument...