Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worst period of the hostages' ordeal began. Fresh details of the early days of captivity were disclosed last week by some of the eight black men and five women who were released after 16 days by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini as a propaganda move, and by Richard I. Queen, 29, the embassy's vice consul, who was let go last July because he was suffering from multiple sclerosis...
Immediately after the capture, said Queen, several of the hostages were held in small rooms at the embassy, while others were led blindfolded through streets filled with mobs screaming for their death. Two weeks after the takeover, many of the hostages were herded into the "Mushroom Inn," their nickname for the windowless basement of the main embassy building, which their captors had divided into small rooms to serve as cells. The hostages' hands were bound, and some were forced to sit for as long as 16 hours a day, facing blank walls. Queen was imprisoned with a roommate, Joseph...
There does seem to have been a period of relaxation last spring. Some of the hostages were moved into larger and more comfortable rooms. Queen was transferred from the Mushroom to a room in the chancellery building. Its window was bricked up, but some light seeped through cracks in the mortar. Said Queen: "I can't describe what it was like to wake up one morning and see light and hear people again. I remember there were a couple of schoolgirls just walking along and talking and singing outside. It can't be described what it meant...
...inflation, low oil exports, a nasty border squabble with Iraq), but he could not persuade the newly convened Majlis to act. The summer dragged on. Ramsey Clark defied Carter's half-hearted travel ban and attended a conference in Tehran on "Crimes of America." The militants released Richard Queen, a hostage suffering from multiple sclerosis. On July 27 the Shah died, an event that months before might have been useful but now seemed almost irrelevant to the crisis. Richard Nixon was the only notable American at his Cairo funeral...
Sharon Siebert, a former Minneapolis "Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes," and Husband Richard, a neurosurgeon, had been married for twelve years when, in 1974, she began to suffer brain seizures. A cyst operation led to meningitis, and by 1976 she lay helpless at St. Mary's Rehabilitation Center in Minneapolis. Finally, last August, her family and physician agreed that if Siebert's heart or lungs should fail, the staff was in effect to let her die. Now her condition is at the center of a debate about who, if anyone, can make such a decision for a patient...