Word: weres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But on Sunday, while the Iranians were still making preparations to release the first of the hostages, came a shocking announcement that promised only to worsen the crisis. Many of the remaining hostages, proclaimed a spokesman for the students, would now be tried for espionage in the Islamic Revolutionary Courts...
As for the promise to release some of the hostages, the Iranians dawdled through the weekend and by early Monday Iran time, nearly 40 hours after the first announcement, not a single American had been freed. Instead, the students staged a circus act in the embassy compound, trotting out three...
If the crisis ends badly and any of the hostages are harmed, however, the U.S. will face a far more serious problem. Though the Administration has ruled out military intervention during the current impasse (there were naval exercises in the Persian Gulf last week, however), it might change its mind...
(2 of 11) slated to be released for a "press conference" before some 200 American and other foreign correspondents. The three?two 23-year-old black Marines and a 22-year-old female secretary?were seated at a table in front of three colored posters of the Ayatullah and slogans...
The Iranian students still held dozens of exhausted American hostages inside the U.S. embassy compound in Tehran. The Shah, whose temporary entry into the U.S. for medical treatment had precipitated the assault, still lay hospitalized in New York, despite rumors that, he might leave for Mexico at any moment. And...