Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freedom flight touched down in Athens for refueling and then headed for Algiers. It landed at Houari Boumedienne Airport in a rainstorm. In the glare of television lights, Bruce Laingen, the chargé d'affaires at the Tehran embassy, led Kathryn Koob and Elizabeth Ann Swift, who wore the familiar yellow ribbons in their" hair, down a ramp and into the arms of the normally undemonstrative Christopher. Despite beards, the faces of some of the men reflected their exuberance...
...maltreatment seemed to fall into definite patterns. Among the several hostages kept in solitary confinement for long periods were two senior captives: Lieut. Colonel David Roeder, 41, assistant air attache at the embassy, and Elizabeth Ann Swift, 40, chief of the political section. The captives given the most severe treatment of all were the most rebellious, of whom there were several...
...crisis was only two weeks old when Khomeini startled the world by ordering the release of eight black male hostages and five of the seven women held. (The two remaining: Elizabeth Ann Swift, the ranking Foreign Service officer in the embassy during the takeover, and Kathryn Koob, director of the Iran-American Society.) The explanation he gave, that blacks suffer in the U.S. and that Islam does not make war on women, suggested that the release was intended to soften world opinion, not mollify "America, the mother of corruption." A short time later Khomeini was dropping hints that the hostages...
...this house. It will be hard to leave it." Rosalynn Carter, wearing a white wool suit, came out of a nearby bedroom. At the table, the President said a short prayer and then began talking of his own future, speaking slowly as he examined his feelings, the answers less swift and rehearsed than usual. "For the first time in my life," he said, "I don't have any specific goals to work toward. I've never had to face that before...
Understandably, reaction from African nations who fear that they could be the next gleam in the Libyan leader's eye was swift. Said Gabon President Omar Bongo: "This annexation attempt creates a very serious situation." Egypt's Anwar Sadat and the Sudan's Gafaar Nimeiri expressed comparable concern. Within the Chad capital of N'Djamena, where months of internecine combat have left the city ravaged, there was incredulity. Said Abdelkader Kamougue, Vice President of Chad's transitional government legitimized by the 1979 Lagos agreement: "It's an impossible marriage...