Word: timme
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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...
Even before the rescue attempt, some of the relatives had run out of hope that the Administration would ever be able to free the hostages and had decided to take matters into their own hands. The most celebrated case was that of Barbara Timm and her husband...
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...
...Travel by Americans to Iran, except for journalists. (At week's end Barbara Timm, mother of Hostage Kevin Hermening, defied the ban by flying to Tehran; the Administration made no effort to stop...