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...American educational system also threatens the family, according to a number of delegates. They denounced bureaucracies, and "amoral indoctrination," and they demanded tax credits for parents who wish to choose private schools that "best correspond to their own moral values." Neal Stafford from Wyoming said of the schools: "You have to do what Washington mandates. That's the way Communism operates, with controlling education of the kids...
...happy but professionally restrained diplomats appeared one by one before a televised press conference at the State Department. In an oddly stiff ceremony, each gave name and title: Mark Lijek, 28, a consular officer; his wife Cora, 26, a consular secretary (both from Falls Church, Va.); Joseph D. Stafford, 29, a consular officer; his wife Kathleen, 28, a consular secretary (both from Crossville, Tenn.); Robert Anders, 54, a consulate officer (from Port Charlotte, Fla.); and Henry Lee Schatz, 31, an agricultural attache (from Post Falls, Idaho). Anders read a carefully prepared statement thanking reporters for keeping their sensitive secret...
...Americans grouped together in a back room on the building's ground floor. Among them, according to King, were Lijek, Anders and Kathy Stafford. The Marine managed to jimmy a back door, which had been bolted automatically as a security precaution. The door opened onto an alley. "Mark and I looked out the window upstairs," said King, "and it was clear as far as we could see. We went back down. I opened the door and we walked...
...American diplomats, however, there was no such easy way out. One of the carefully guarded secrets is just where they stayed in the days between fleeing their offices and Nov. 8, when one of them called the Canadian embassy to seek refuge. By then, Kathy Stafford and Mark Lijek had somehow been reunited with their spouses. Ambassador Taylor later said his staff had been "unanimous" in wanting "to do everything we could to help." On Nov. 10 the five Americans who had worked in the consular section showed up at the Canadian embassy. It was not until Nov. 22 that...
...Taylor got a scare. Someone called his home and asked to speak to "Mr. or Mrs. Stafford." Taylor's wife Patricia replied that no one by that name was there. But the caller insisted that he knew they were. With that, the escape plan was speeded up. The Americans, safe for so long in their hideaway, were not sure they wanted to run the risk of trying to board a plane. Taylor convinced them that the danger of staying was growing ever greater...