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Dates: during 1970-1979
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All three networks found the conditions unacceptable. They continued bargaining, but only NBC was able to work out a deal: a taped interview in prime time using an Iranian camera crew and resident NBC Correspondents Fred Francis and George Lewis. A student spokesman who called herself Mary would make unedited...
Marine Sergeant William Quarles, one of the 13 blacks and women released from captivity in the American embassy in Tehran in November, picked up a phone this month and heard a stranger say: "I know you feel guilty. Don't worry about it-it's normal." The man...
Psychologists know that ex-hostages need that kind of reassurance, sometimes for months or even years after their release. Most hostages suffer some degree of psychological damage, a mix of helplessness, fear, rage and a sense of abandonment. During the Hanafi incident, says Siegel, "some of us felt we had...
According to psychologists, the syndrome has three stages: the hostages feel positive about their captors; the hostages develop negative feelings toward the authorities trying to rescue them; and finally the hostage takers develop positive feelings toward their victims. Both groups feel isolated and terrorized and come to believe, "We'...
Stage 3 is unlikely to occur in Iran, because the hostage taking is a government-approved operation that does not psychologically isolate the terrorists from the general population. But some psychologists see evidence in the sketchy news emerging from Tehran that Stages 1 and 2 have occurred.