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...Inaugural speech and ceremony. When word came that the hostages were finally free, News Editor Dean Fischer coordinated long-standing plans to gather information on the hostages and their families. Reporter Susan Schindehette was with the family of former Hostage Gary Lee when his call came through from Wiesbaden, West Germany. Schindehette recorded the family's reaction and then spoke to Lee, becoming one of the first journalists to interview a hostage...
...Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who also wrote last spring's cover story on the aborted rescue mission. Contributor John Skow reviewed the events leading up to the final breakthrough, with assistance from Reporter-Researcher Richard Bruns. Using sources he developed on four previous trips to Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, Correspondent Lee Griggs kept close tabs on the preparations to receive the hostages in West Germany. In New York, a TIME reporter specializing in Persian Gulf affairs stayed in close telephone contact with sources in Tehran, ran a network of journalists there and monitored Iranian radio broadcasts. Says Magnuson...
...exchange of money into motion. Two U.S. C-9A Nightingale hospital planes from Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany would then pick up the ex-hostages in Algiers for the roughly two-hour flight to Frankfurt, near the U.S. Air Force's 235-bed hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, America's best military hospital in Europe. Said a surgeon there: "Officially, we still don't even know if the hostages will be coming here. Unofficially, a wing is reserved, beds are made, fresh flowers are ordered, and we're expecting 52 new patients...
...Liaison Action Group in Washington, says that most of the relatives have agreed to wait in the U.S. The State Department has promised that, within a few hours of their release, the freed hostages may telephone anyone they wish, anywhere in the world, at government expense. Hospital officials in Wiesbaden believe that the healthiest of the Americans might be ready to return home within 72 hours, setting off an emotional binge of welcome from Americans who have been waiting impatiently for the hostages' return for more than 440 days...
...after the Majlis vote, early Sunday morning by U.S. time, hostage families were telephoned by the State Department and told to be prepared for a breakthrough. Many of them made ready to fly to Frankfurt and meet the hostages at their presumed arrival point, an Air Force base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Then, as had happened so many times before, expectations sank back to earth. The Majlis said that the hostages would be released in groups as conditions were met, and Muskie rejected any piecemeal return. But Carter did agree in principle to meet Khomeini's four conditions...