European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes january 1981 at last the hostages Are free continued from Page i the control Tower a United press International correspondent at the Airport said that three planes landed two air Algeria one carrying the hostages and another their and a smaller executive Jet thought to be a Athens Airport officials reported the planes took off for Algiers shortly after the first a 12passenger landed at local it took 18 minutes to taxi from the end of the run said Don station manager at the american forces radio station in officials refused to allow waiting news men onto the air base until after the planes had landed and then restricted them to a waiting ambassador Robert greek and military officials met the Mccloskey walked the 100 Yards from the terminal to the plane carrying a Large yellow a bouquet of sent by a woman from hell Nikon was also taken to the Conniff said that 10 Box lunches were delivered to the smaller the hostages did not get off the 727 while it was in Conniff a Small group of americans at the air port gave three cheers As the first plane they had been refused entry to the base but went across to the main Airport and watched from the spectators Terrace As the planes a spokesman for the base said the planes were being the control Tower spokesman said that the planes were scheduled to continue their flight to two c9 Nightingale flying hospitals thundered into an overcast sky at Rhein main a shortly before nine tuesday bound on a flight to the planes departed within 60 seconds of each at and the each with a Crew of were to Fly Back from Algiers almost immediately with the former hostages the Craft Are Able to carry 40 Stretcher earlier reports from Tehran indicated that the former hostages All appeared to be in Good health and Only one had any difficulty in on Board the Craft were medical sup Reagan continued from Page i a weary who had spend All night in the Oval office trying to Iron out problems that had delayed the hostages after Coffee in the Blue Carter and Reagan left the White House together for the ride up Pennsylvania Avenue to the there was still no announcement to be though Carter had told Rea Gan he expected the planes to leave any the hostages boarded the planes at Teh rans Airport a half hour before the Carter presidency expired and flew to free Dom an hour with a new president at the nations while the hostage crisis plagued Carter throughout his unsuccessful reelection the nations slumping Economy with High unemployment and nigh inflation was a More serious cause of Central Europe forecast for wednesday mostly Cloudy Skles with occasional fair periods and occasional Snow in higher High temperatures 32 to 38 tows 24 to Sunset wednesday Sunrise thursday Outlook for thursday Calls for increasing providing mostly fair skies with morning fog and temperatures will be slightly temperatures recorded tuesday 4am 4pm p m p s m i r i m m t f 48 38 34 40 52 27 45 34 32 36 36 27 27 m 4am 4pm 34 34 41 43 28 32 41 36 38 57 32 41 43 36 Iraln Hiate a mostly Cloudy Snow hog p 7th weather so plies and specially prepared plus 80 copies of the latest edition of the forces the european stars and bearing frontage pictures of All 52 hostages and a headline that so and there were a few special american things on Board like Ham and cheese and Rye which they May not have got ten in said Jared Wil the Man in charge of the maintenance Crew for the c9s at minutes before a Convoy of five limousines with a German police escort pulled up to the several men believed to be state department officials boarded the two a state department spokesman said after the Craft departed that former presi Dent Jimmy Carter was expected to Fly to West Germany by wednesday to Greet the a military spokesman said former Secretary of state Cyrus Vance was to arrive before Dawn to be on hand when the hos tages an air Force spokesman said in addition to the Crew the planes carried As nurse an Toinette Carner Sheldon state department team chief Jerome kor team chief and other four other physicians Esther Robert Navy Noel Howard and Paul the spokesman added that Deputy Secretary of state Warren Christopher and Harold assistant to the Deputy Secretary of state would be on the return flight with the passengers and 52 former american made phantom jets of tur keys air Force scrambled to meet the air Algeria planes As soon As they were spotted by turkish radar in turkish air the entire turkish radar net had been placed on since turkish authorities with no communications with Teh ran Airport had been Uncertain which route the planes would it had Beer expected that the planes would land in an but they flew on to in pars said islamic revolutionary guards around the plane god is Down with America and Down with Reagan As the hostages boarded the Boeing the departure 8 passengers unhurt As 2 balloons crash Cairn up two balloons making commercials for a foreign airline company crashed from a height of feet near the pyramids of but their eight Passen four egyptians and four were not local press reports inhabitants of the area attempted to arrest thinking they were foreign Par the reports a police Force which rushed to the crash site managed to Rescue the eight Passen after persuading the local crowd to the reports the reason of the crash could not be ascertained the newspaper Al ashram said the two balloons came Down because their steering equipment Malf unc another Al said the balloons were tied by ropes to the ground and crashed when the for an unknown were Cut Man believed to be Italy oldest person Dies at 110 Sardinia up Luigi believed to be the oldest person in has who was a construction worker most of his spent much of his time in his last years helping one of his sons run a Butcher asked what May have contributed to his Saba said he liked to take at least one Long walk every was supervised by members of the embassy staff of which mediated be tween Iran the United states to end the the captives departed As Ronald Rea Gan was being depriving Jim my Carter of a final moment of glory to end a presidency dominated and blighted for More than a year by the hostage algerian officials said they expected the hostages to arrive in Algiers at approximately local they were to be taken to where Carter is scheduled to Greet them in a new role As president Rea Gans special the hostages Are expected to remain for several Days in the air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden for medical and psychiatric before returning to rejoicing families at in a Toast to congressional leaders just two hours after he succeeded Carter in the Reagan raised his Glass of California wine and said and now to conclude with thanks to almighty i have been Given a tag the Getoff line that everyone wants for the end of a Toast or a speech or any thing else some 30 minutes the planes Bear ing our prisoners left iranian airspace and there now free of so we can All drink to this one to All of us doing what we All know we can do to make this country what it should what it can what it always has a wellspring of echoing the elation across the greeted reagans the tension and frustration that marked the past several Days of Seesaw negotiations persisted until the moment of Depar Iran threw a virtually impenetrable Security screen around Tehran Mehraban Airport and set up a machine gun emplacement on the roof of the passenger Iran freed the hostages after Carter unblocked an estimated billion Worth of iranian assets and transferred them to an escrow account at the Bank of in his inaugural Reagan did not mention the who shared the podium with his was similarly darkness at the Tehran Airport caused a late delay in the hostages because of blackout conditions imposed As a result of Iran War with but run Way lights later were turned Carter worked overnight in the Oval office with his vice Walter and two close bartered final contract terms and or dered the return of Iran Frozen assets triggering the hostages it was shortly after 9 get when Iran and the United states resolved an let hour disagreement that had delayed the hostages Freedom one More in Carter set in motion the trans Fer of billions of dollars of iranian the Frozen by Carter after the were shifted into an escrow account in London for re turn to this was the last step required of Carter for the hostages at tuesday morning Carter was notified by Secretary of the Treasury William Miller that the fro zen iranian assets had been transferred to the escrow account of the algerian Cen trial Bank at the Bank of Powell and this step completely fills All Steps agreed to by the United states prior to the release of the algerian intermediaries officially Noti fied Iran at Powell the impasse was broken with a proposal drafted by a British lawyer for the iranian Central Bank to resolve a dispute Over in Terest on iranian the press Secretary the break came under deadline pres sure applied by each Powell said the iranians had been told if there were no settlement in effect the new administration will be Able to dismantle everything that been done if they want Iran chief Behzad said his government would set a deadline for Banks to Transfer Frozen iranian assets to the Bank of if this is not harsher decisions will definitely be at one the iranians reportedly took the first step toward putting the hos tages on trial As spies if there had been no agreement by we had prepared ourselves to put the hostages on trial if we had not reached an agreement by a judicial Branch source told the Canadian referring to reagans it was a he now i Dis close Farewell to Tehran iranians Lead former hostage Joseph the let taking him from Tehran and to Subic of Redford to Freedom a photo