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Since the hostages received little mail and only censored magazines news trickled in to the captives through roundabout and nefarious means. Swift learned that the Shah had left the United States when she found a letter addressed to one of the hostages thrown carelessly in a wastepaper basket. Swift read the letter and quickly replaced it in case it was put there as a trap. Similarly, Swift learned that the Shah had died from the index page of Time magazine. As she told the Quarterly, "One of the student honchos came in and said, as part of the usual harangue...

Author: By Wendy L. Wail, | Title: Ex-Hostage Swift: Year of Reflection | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...officer on the Philippine desk when the U S ambassador was taken hostage. Swift sat on the outside and watched the U S response. "I knew it was U.S. government policy not to ransom hostages." Swift says, adding. "The students would sit there yelling "Give back the Shah" and I would sit there trying to explain why my country would never give the Shah back...

Author: By Wendy L. Wail, | Title: Ex-Hostage Swift: Year of Reflection | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...same time as a political officer. Swift says she belived the Ayatollah Khomeim meant what he said," and when she learned he had endorsed the demand to return the Shah, she lost much hope. "I didn't figure they would give us back at least until the Shah died...

Author: By Wendy L. Wail, | Title: Ex-Hostage Swift: Year of Reflection | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...drowned under suspicious circumstances. Manfred's son (by Susan's mother) is either in a Chilean prison or dead. Susan's twin sister Miriam pops up when the story needs her; she is still scarred from being raped by a motorcycle gang and tortured by the Shah's secret police in Iran. She and her current lover, a Vietnamese refugee, have an infant son named Edgar Allan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conceits | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...visited the Oval Office with a proposal that day. "Such a jerk," the President had noted. Reading through the diaries over these past months has given him new perspectives on his presidency. He now believes, for example, that he should have picked up earlier on the problems that the Shah of Iran was having at home. Flipping through the diary pages, he turned to a day in the fall of 1977 when he had stood with the Shah on the White House lawn while tear gas used to disperse protesters near by drifted over them. As the diary reported, Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmy Carter: This Is My Place | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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