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...already been selected out of 2,500 applicants and begun preliminary tests; 30 more are in the next group waiting for treatment (estimated cost: $3,000 to $4,000). Exulted Jill Schroeder, 31, a Norfolk bookkeeper: "This is an answer to our prayers." Sarah Smith, 33, of Virginia Beach, wept with joy. Said her husband: "It sent chills up and down my spine...
Waldheim, his legendary diplomatic poise badly shaken, hugged the child for a few moments while the crippled demonstrators and Waldheim's armed Iranian bodyguards wept. Then he promised emotionally that he would press for a U.N. investigation of atrocities committed under the Shah. Vowed Waldheim: "I shall bring this message of suffering before the United Nations, before the world community. We will inquire into the violation of human rights by the previous regime. We shall certainly do whatever we can to ensure that this mutilation of human beings will never take place again...
...that for security reasons, no more than five hostages could meet with a clergyman at one time. After considerable argument, the clerics split up and conducted eleven separate services. Said Gumbleton: "We sang together, we prayed together and we shared the Eucharist together. I should also say that we wept together." Afterward, the churchmen tallied the number of hostages that each had seen and arrived at a total of 41 men and two women-seven short of the 50 hostages who the State Department insists were seized by the students...
...government appointments in the region be vetted by Sharietmadari and that secular curbs be placed on the near dictatorial powers given Khomeini under Iran's new constitution. A mullah then rose and recounted acts of brutality committed in Tabriz by the revolutionary guards. Whereupon all the other mullahs wept profusely...
...desks. "We were going all the time," says Fowler. "The older fellows used to work until 8 or 9 o'clock at night and then go to some speakeasy for drinks. They lived fast." Some also spent some time in nearby Trinity Church, where they prayed and openly wept...