Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to be hard to last another day. It is impossible to go on." That is what U.S. Vice Consul Richard Queen said to himself after almost two months as a hostage in Iran. Queen, now recuperating with his family in Maine after his release, spoke about his 250 days in captivity last week with TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro. For all the hardship he endured, he told his story calmly and dispassionately, even recalling a jocular remark a fellow captive once made about his equanimity: "You are a perfect hostage...
...Queen, who was released two weeks ago by Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini after 250 days as a hostage, was then taken to Georgetown University Hospital. There he will be debriefed by State Department officials and treated for multiple sclerosis, which U.S. doctors last week diagnosed as his affliction. The physicians who examined him at the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, are optimistic that Queen will suffer only mild and transient effects from the disease...
...symptoms include loss of coordination, numbness, dizziness and a weakening of the muscles that sometimes leads later to paralysis. Queen suffered from these symptoms as early as last December, a month after he was taken prisoner by the militants who seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. When his condition grew worse, Khomeini, for "humane reasons," ordered him sent home for treatment...
Studies indicate that acute stress-such as that suffered by the hostages-can bring on the symptoms or exacerbate them. Nonetheless, State Department Physician Jerome Korcak, who is treating Queen, said last week that "it has been impossible to prove" that his captivity brought on the symptoms. A common treatment is relaxation and the removal of the cause of stress. Harold Queen has prescribed such a treatment for his son. This week they will go up to their new home in Lincolnville, Me. Richard has never seen the house, but he is eager to try the salmon fishing in Duck...
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