Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerusalem Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, the events led to a feeling of double recall: in 1970 he had helped cover the hijacking of four jetliners by Palestinian guerrillas, and during 1980-81, he reported on the hostage crisis in Tehran. Covering the Israeli role last week, Flamini found that normally informative sources had grown tight-lipped overnight. Said he: "One of the most talkative political centers in the world had suddenly fallen silent." In this unaccustomed atmosphere, Jerusalem Reporter Robert Slater drew on an unusual source. At one point Slater heard a matter-of-fact Israel Radio report that Israel...
Late in the week the airport was the scene of a mass rally by hundreds of fist-shaking Shi'ite marchers organized by Hizballah. In presumably conscious imitation of the Shi'ite demonstrations outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 and 1980, the militants trampled and burned an American flag and chanted, "Death to Israel and America, the Great Satan." Though their hatred of the U.S. was genuine enough, one purpose of their demonstration in the early summer heat was to steal a little thunder from Amal, with whom they are in conflict for the leadership of Lebanon...
...chances are that the mediaconscious terrorists described the scene to their captives. If they did, it surely summoned up bitter memories. While probably none of the hostages thought the ordeal would last 444 days, as it had for the American hostages in Tehran, the parallels were nonetheless disturbing: they too had become pawns in an alien struggle over which they had no control...
...like a nightmarish rerun of the Iranian hostage drama, with a surreal twist. Once again American hostages were paraded before the cameras by their terrorist captors. Only this time they were not blindfolded, as the American embassy officials had been in Tehran, or made to grovel by bug-eyed radicals shouting "Death to America!" Rather, the prisoners, some unshaven, all uneasy, but combed and neat, were graciously ushered out to meet the press...
...said that the mysterious Soviet diplomat who purportedly put up the more than $1 million to kill the Pope went by the name of "Milenkov or Malenkov." During pretrial testimony, however, Agca had identified one "Malenkov" as a Bulgarian spy who had introduced him to a Soviet attache in Tehran in 1980. More baffling still, in January 1984 Agca said he had invented both Malenkov and the Soviet official. Last week Agca described the bombing of the radio stations as having taken place in late 1980; the stations were actually attacked in February 1981. The dramatic identification of Antonov lost...