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Elsie Roach Altavista, Va...
Prince George, Va...
...President and his men moved into the larger Cabinet Room and sat down to a dinner of sandwiches. As they talked about limiting the damage, they were joined by Turner, who had been following the unfolding events from his CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. While Carter telephoned some foreign leaders and key members of Congress, Vance directed his staff at the State Department to get ready to inform the relatives of the hostages. The meeting ended at midnight, but each participant returned to his own office to work on into the night...
...hour passed, the relatives became less apprehensive. Nonetheless, some felt that they had been betrayed -and the hostages recklessly endangered -by President Carter. Demanded Bonnie Graves of Reston, Va., wife of Public Affairs Officer John Graves: "Eight deaths for what? I hope to God the Iranians are capable of restraint in this situation." In Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Ernest Cooke, mother of Embassy Staffer Donald Cooke, declared: "I can't believe they did such a thing. I understood, or thought I understood, that it was such a dangerous operation that they wouldn...
...timing of the operation bewildered Mary Jane Engquist of Burke, Va., sister of Hostage Kathryn Koob, director of the Iran-American Society. Said Mrs. Engquist: "Why now? Why not a month ago when nothing was happening? Why not two weeks from now if things are dragging? It just boggles my mind. I did not want military action. My feeling was that since I've waited six months, I could wait a couple more. My heart goes out to the families of those men who lost their lives...