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Many of the returned Americans have already resumed their diplomatic or military careers. Of the nine Marines released in January, only one, Sergeant Rodney Sickmann of Washington, Mo., has accepted the offer of an early discharge. Embassy Chargé d' Affaires L. Bruce Laingen rebuffs reports that he will run for public office. "He'd be good at it," said his wife Penelope. "But how could I leave the foreign service?" he countered. Richard Queen, of Lincolnville, Me., whose multiple sclerosis is in indefinite remission, is back at a State Department desk in Washington while awaiting a prized...
Virgil and Toni Sickmann of Krakow, Mo., the parents of Hostage Rodney Sickmann, give fewer interviews since KMOX-TV, the CBS affiliate in St. Louis, had a telephone installed near the couple's driveway without asking their permission. Says Mrs. Sickmann: "We think they owe us an apology...
Other relatives of hostages were tempted to follow her to Tehran, though several had misgivings about making the trip. Said Toni Sickmann, of Krakow, Mo., mother of Marine Sergeant Rodney Sickmann: "I want to see him. But I don't want him to see us break down because that would break him down too." A different issue worried Paul Keough, of Sherborn, Mass., whose brother William, superintendent of the American School in Pakistan, had been visiting Tehran when the embassy was seized. Paul Keough argued that the emotionally wrenching sight of relatives pleading in Tehran for permission...
...Department Officer John Limbert. Last month, 47 of the hostage families endorsed a letter sent to Carter threatening to protest if he allowed the Shah back into the U.S. for medical care. Some families feel that the President's moves against Iran should have begun earlier. Said Virgil Sickmann, whose son Rodney was a Marine guard at the embassy: "I wish the President had taken these actions two months sooner. If he had done it then, I think that by this time Iran would have become a little weakened." Added Mary Needham, whose son Paul, 29, was a military...
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