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Jones did not really feel free until the plane carrying the hostages arrived in Wiesbaden. He says, "I saw all those friendly faces and knew it was for real...
...former Commander in Chief also was reminded of the facts of military life. He was told that when the nine Marines who had been held captive first reported to the senior Marine colonel at Wiesbaden, their disheveled leader snapped off a salute and said: "The Marine squadron from Tehran reporting for duty, sir." Returning the salute, the smartly uniformed officer ordered them to march off to the Wiesbaden barbershop and get rid of beards and long hair. They...
...first phone call from Gary Earl Lee came at 2 a.m. Wednesday, and his wife Pat wept uncontrollably when she first heard his voice, clear and firm, from Wiesbaden. Lee, 37, the son of a missionary in India, had been in Tehran since May 1979, serving as an administrative officer. His posting to Tehran was his sixth overseas assignment, including duty as coordinator of logistics for Henry Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy." Now, some 24 hours after Lee's plane had lifted off from Tehran Mehrabad Airport, Pat Lee, 37, waited for the phone to ring again. With...
...cover the stories, pulling many staffers off other assignments. Says Ernest Leiser, CBS vice president for special events and political coverage: "We had to cannibalize the rest of CBS news in order to do it." The Associated Press and United Press International had hundreds of reporters in Washington, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Algiers, as well as in dozens of American towns where relatives of the hostages awaited their release...
Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 journalists gathered at the Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden and at nearby Rhein-Main airport in Frankfurt to await the captives. Each TV network had at least 50 people on hand, some from as far away as Bangkok and Johannesburg. Studios had been set up in the Frankfurt-Sheraton Hotel last October, when it looked as though the hostages would be freed. Said Thomas Cheatham, NBC'S Israel bureau chief, who had been standing by in West Germany for the past four months: "A minimum figure for the watch here alone would be well over...