Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the money to repay about $3.7 billion in syndicated international loans. Another $1.4 billion went into a second escrow fund to liquidate loans from individual banks. Thus Iran has directly received only about $2.87 billion so far-a paltry sum compared with the $24 billion "ransom" that Tehran's revolutionary regime had originally demanded. In addition, some $2.3 billion in Iranian assets remains in U.S. banks pending court decisions concerning the numerous attachments on these funds. This money might ultimately be used to satisfy American claims...
...because, as Marine Colonel James L. Cooper, commanding officer of all the Marine security guards, contended, "What some soft-living State Department type might consider torture is just normal living conditions for a Marine." That brought a reply from a State Department spokesman that the diplomatic personnel at the Tehran embassy actually were treated far more harshly than the Marines. Among the absentees, one former hostage simply paid his respects: Navy Commander Donald Sharer, now stationed at a nearby Virginia military base, buzzed the resort spectacularly in a low-flying F-14 jet fighter...
...vacation at the 200-year-old haven, which covers 6,500 scenic acres sprinkled with horse-riding trails, tennis courts, swimming pools and a championship golf course. The hotel provided free rooms and services; airlines flew in the guests gratis. The setting was about as far removed from Tehran's "Mushroom Inn" cells as a former hostage could hope to find...
Elizabeth Ann Swift '62, one of the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for more than a year, will return to Cambridge in the fall as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA). Swift, who was the second highest ranking political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, accepted the position this week, saying. "I am very pleased and honored to be invited to be a CFIA fellow. It is a marvelous opportunity...
...good story," aspiring Journalist Cynthia Dwyer, 49, borrowed $500 from her mother last April and caught a flight to Iran. Last week she returned with what she admits may be "the only exclusive I'll ever have." To get it, she endured nine months in a Tehran prison, a trial on espionage charges, conviction and finally deportation. Delighted to be back in Amherst, N.Y., with her husband and three children, the "53rd hostage" was saving most of her experiences for a book she plans to write. Dwyer did say that she had been duped into and subsequently arrested...