European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1981 iranian torture by the associated press the hostages told of beatings and other mistreatment at the hands of the iranian captors wednesday As they telephoned their loved ones Back one said he was beaten and placed in solitary confinement for More than five months after he tried to another said he was told by iranian interrogators trying to extract information from him that his Mother had he didst learn that she was still alive until the freed Cap Tives reached Germany wednesday morn As they began a stay of several Days at the air Force Hospital in most of the 52 hostages talked with their families for the first time in 445 most reported they were doing Leland Security chief of the embassy in called his 79yearold Mother in Scales before he said he had spent a month in what he called the Dungeon and said his Cap tors were said the colonels Moth Clara he i didst fare As badly As some of them he said his House was ransacked and everything Tak including his watch and they took All the furniture and Duane Sam Gillette called his parents in and Andrew a spokesman for the said later his treatment was at times i think president Reagan was polite when he termed the iranians we know that his letters were covering up what the real situation there was no physical but there was psycho logical the food want Good and the conditions were very the family of Malcolm Kalp in Brock said they Learned that the Rea son nobody Back Home heard from him during the 444 Days of Captivity was that he tried to escape several times and was talked for about half an hour with his Richard he told us he tried to escape several Richard Kalis wife that sounded like he said he had written us often and asked if we had received any of his we told him we haunt and he said he had never received any of ours and we had written he told us he was beaten by them and placed in solitary confinement because of his escape said Kalis sister in Elfio stages Tell families about solitary confinement imposed by captors Linda she said he served from 150 Days to 170 Days in but she didst know if it were All served at Marine Johnny Mckeel told his parents in Batch that interrogators told him his Mother had Young Mckeel quoted the interrogator As your Mother is dead and if you want to go Back to the youll have to Tell us what we want to the Marine said he gave Only his rank and serial a guard knocked out one of his on a happier Barbara in Oak said she had a very private and very Beautiful Telephone conversation with her son Kevin Hermening Early she said the 21yearold Marine had asked for pork chops for his Homecoming and told her those hostages that we rent quite of Are of Norma said her son Michael looked great on he looked right into the camera As if to i Hope somebody watching recall chilled friendships iranians in claim they Felt like hostages its a Freedom tree with the release of the 52 americans held by Iran for 444 former presi Dent Jimmy Carters pledge is fulfilled the National Christmas tree on the Al near the White blazes Forth for the first time in All its Carter had announced that Only the Star at the top of the tree would be lighted until the Days of Captivity were the burst of fireworks in the Back ground is part of the activity for presi Dent reagans a by United press International iranian students in the United states said tuesday that for the past 444 they also Felt like we Felt we were in said an iranian graduate student at Michigan state University in East who asked not to be the real hostages Are not said Abdi a graduate student at George Washington University in Wash some of the students said americans did not understand their since the hostages were the Stu dents they have had trouble getting Money from suffered from discrimination and threats of and were unable to leave the country for fear they would not be Able to get Back the release of the hostages Means i can go Home after four years and visit my said Famini president of an iranian student group at the univer sity of new Ehsan an iranian graduate student at Memphis state said he was considering changing his name be cause of the discrimination he has suffered since the hostages were there Are Many iranians who Are Here temporarily to work or to make this their country who Are unhappy victims of Cir he everybody tired of the hostage Situa probably even the iranian Shaeghi was openly critical of the Tak ing of the hostages and the situation in he called the taking of the hostages an illegal to the iranian any super Power is a great he they have to say something to make people Fol Low this is just propaganda they feed to the most students tried to steer a Middle course Between defense of their Homeland and the sensitive feelings of their Host in not going to say whether it the taking of the hostages was right or said Massoud a mathematics major at the University of it was a political mat the most important thing is that my country does not want to be dependent on Russia or the United states any the students recalled and chilled friendships during the hostage the president of an iranian student group at Michigan state University also declined to be identified said he had received threatening phone Calls and saw student sponsored petitions to Deport they were he said of his Fel Low it was just some of the not All of people treated us they hated said the graduate student at George Washington i always feel the tension that people dont like me As much As they used Ali Ruzbeh born Moghadam of the University of Nebraska Lincoln said Ira Nian students were Hurt when president Reagan called iranians i care about the people of the United states and the majority of them would never talk about iranians like he Reagan was not being fair to the iranian administration wont commit self to iranian terms Washington a the Reagan administration refused wednesday to com Mit itself to fulfilling the terms of the agreement with Iran that freed the 52 american the Reagan administration would not want to commit itself to following through without having a Chance to go Over the said William the new state department asked if certain provisions might be re Dyess the intention at this Point is to study these aspects very he told reporters the review would take several the agreement provides for the Transfer to Iran of assets that were Frozen by then president Jimmy Carter after the hostages were it also turns Over american claims against the revolutionary govern ment to an International claims the Wall Street in an editorial said the agreement has the same moral standing As an agreement made with a that is to say none at the editorial advised president Reagan to examine it carefully and said if its unfulfilled parts do on Benefit american there should be no Hesi tation in renouncing Dyess said he knew of no one within the new administration who had characterized this but he said in talks with officials he did not name them he understood they will proceed very careful soviets crack Down on 200 dissidents London a More than 200 dissidents been imprisoned in the soviet Union in the past 15 months in a sustained crackdown on All kinds of the International human rights organization amnesty International it said the crackdown has hit dissenters of All kinds All Over the soviet Union religious human rights activists and campaigners for National rights in the no russian republics of the