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Before his flight home, Carter stood at a small lectern at Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt. His face frozen in rage and his voice cracking, he declared: "The acts of barbarism that were perpetrated on our people by Iran can never be condoned. These criminal acts ought to be condemned by all law-loving, decent people of the world. It has been an abominable circumstance that will never be forgotten." He denounced the captors as "terrorists" who had committed a "despicable act of savagery." Still livid as he penned a report to the new President, while flying back across...
Landing at Rhein-Main Air Base before dawn on Wednesday (12:43 a.m. in Washington), the Americans were met by former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and rushed toward two blue buses. Colonel Schaefer, however, headed instead toward a crowd of spectators, embraced several onlookers and chatted with them. Did he know them? "No," he replied to a fellow passenger on the bus, "but it felt good." On the 25-mile ride to the hospital in Wiesbaden, one of the former hostages raised his hand and sought permission to ask a question. Another asked whether he could light a cigarette...
...night, when there would be little traffic or crowds along the highways. The Algerian airliner, perhaps escorted by U.S. fighter planes, would take them to Algiers, thus confirming the Americans' release and setting the exchange of money into motion. Two U.S. C-9A Nightingale hospital planes from Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany would then pick up the ex-hostages in Algiers for the roughly two-hour flight to Frankfurt, near the U.S. Air Force's 235-bed hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, America's best military hospital in Europe. Said a surgeon there: "Officially...
...Rhein-Main air base 25 miles away, two white C-9A Nightingale hospital planes are on 24-hour stand-by to fly to any European or North African destination to pick up the precious passengers. By every means that can be foreseen, from both a medical and psychological point of view, the way is being smoothed for the hostages' arrival. Says a State Department official involved in planning for the hostages' reception: "The first hours, even the first two days, are a very delicate time. They should be free of any pressures. They need to take a deep...
...landed in a dark corner of the Rhein-Main airfield; Pompidou's jet was already waiting, and we were airborne again within ten minutes of landing. Walters claimed that West German cooperation was speeded up by their belief, encouraged by him, that the passenger was a secret girlfriend of Pompidou's. I have often wondered why he thought the waiting ground personnel could have been fooled about the sex of the passenger...