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...Republicans, were intended to open the process to a greater number of people, especially women, minorities and the young. But the new rules have made the selection by caucus so complicated that more and more states have substituted primaries. This year 37 are holding primaries, an expensive and enervating ordeal for candidates that is almost as burdensome as the presidency itself...
Will the Tehran hostages recover from their ordeal...
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...
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...
...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...