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...Jones is too busy savoring his reunion with his wife and four daughters in Detroit to decide whether to continue in the Foreign Service. But Wife Mattie believes that even after Cairo, Saigon and Tehran, Charles Jones will soon be packing his bags for another post overseas...
...great emotional climax of all these months, the reunion of the hostages and their families, fortunately occurred offscreen, in privacy. Would it have happened in privacy if the press had had its way? The uncomfortable answer, which the press should be willing to face about itself, is no. Had the hostages not been Government employees, had they not been flown out by the Government, sequestered by the Government first in Wiesbaden then at West Point, with the press held at bay by military police, no feeling of ethical restraint or human sympathy would have kept the cameras from zooming...
Denied the chance to photograph the moments of reunion, the press had to settle for a morning-after press conference, with the hostages impersonally lined up like the Soviet Presidium. It wasn't the cozy atmosphere that TV interviewers favor. The first question asked at the press conference was not even about the hostages' welfare, or about their families: it was Daniel Schorr wanting to know the hostages' attitude toward the press. Did Schorr expect a testimonial from them, or would he have been just as happy (since TV interviewers like to elicit on-screen emotion...
...civilians, too, among the former captives took hot showers to get ready for the last leg of their historic odyssey: the final flight home. After a reunion with their families in the seclusion of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., the liberated Americans were to be guests of the new Reagan Administration at a subdued ceremony at the White House this week. The families of the eight who died also will be honored...
...follow Barbara Rosen, wife of one of the hostages. Explained J.J. Gonzales of WCBS-XV: "There is a line between coverage and harassment." As the hostages prepared to return home at week's end, a protective Government made plans to ensure them a measure of privacy. The reunion with their families was set for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where -aside from one scheduled news conference-authorities could keep the news-hounds at bay. A few more days in a kinder sort of captivity was necessary before the hostages could face freedom -and the press. -By Janice...