Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tehran, Barbara Timm, who had journeyed there to see her hostage son, Marine Sergeant Kevin Hermening, snapped: "I'm angry that our President would do something so stupid." Accompanied by her husband to a press conference in the office of Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr, she said, "We deeply regret" the U.S. rescue attempt, and offered "apologies" to the Iranian people. Then, as Banisadr smiled, she posed for cameramen under a portrait of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, embraced her husband and broke into tears...
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...
Also at issue was the wisdom of the Administration's attempt to bar relatives from going to Tehran in the first place. The order first made Carter look cruel and then, as Mrs. Timm traveled with impunity to Tehran, impotent. The travel ban, which carries a possible fine of $2,000 and imprisonment of five years if violated, is based on passport law. But as State Department officials admit, a similar regulation did not stop Americans from traveling to Cuba without their passports in the 1960s and 1970s. Furthermore, the ban is virtually impossible to enforce. Said a White...
...Estaing kept a delegation of mayors waiting for almost an hour while he talked with the women and offered them "the profound sympathy and solidarity of France." According to the leader of the group, Louisa Kennedy of Washington, D.C., wife of the economic and commercial officer at the Tehran embassy, Giscard was "extremely supportive and concerned...
...attempt would "not deter America's allies from continuing to support the U.S. in its actions against Iran." At week's end, they carried that message to Luxembourg, where the leaders of the European Community met to consider further joint action on the long-running crisis in Tehran...