European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes january 1981 makes one Good to be an american1 Welcome overwhelms returnees by Chuck Freadhoff staff writer Germany Many of the 52 former hostages have shown a remarkable spirit despite their iranian people who have met and talked with them told the stars and stripes the returning americans have Good a tiredly handled the dozens of requests for autographs and photos from Hospital patients and visitors at the two Joseph Hall said he was Over whelmed by the reception they its i dont know what to the feeling of the american people is just beyond it makes me feel really Good to be an its great to be when a bystander pointed out that the air Force Hospital int Hall its close youre Ameri although Hes unsure of his Long Range plans theres Little doubt what hell do when he gets off his plane in the i think ill probably get on my Knees and kiss the Earth and then in going to get off my Knees and then try to find my wife in the in going to spend a great Deal of time with my wife and my in looking Forward to asked if he regrets going to Hall i went there to serve it turned out kind of bad but in anxious to serve returned hostage Kathryn Koob met with some of the Haine Berg elementary school students who made All the posters decorating the Hospital speaking in a gentle voice which belied her Long she spoke to a second coaxing him past his my name is Kathryn what is your name what Grade Are you in he you did something special before we came what did you do we Drew the boy what kind of poster did you draw what is the poster she continuing to coax the when he told her he  read she read it for i missed you for a Long and you know what i missed you for a Long time can you Tell All a hostage promoted in Wiesbaden rite Germany for Mer hostage 6 Donald Hohman was promoted thursday in a ceremony led by Frederick Usa eur and seventh army commander in from West was assigned to the 97th general Hospital in Frankfurt and was on Tempo Rary duty in Tehran when he was taken he was promoted to sergeant first present at the ceremony were former Secre tary of state Cyrus Vance and ohmans wife and three Central Europe forecast for Friday Calls for partly Cloudy to mostly Cloudy skies with Chance of freezing precipitation and locally dense fog for the Southern half of mostly Cloudy to Cloudy skies with a Chance of freezing drizzle becoming periods of drizzle for Northern High temperatures 37 to 43 tows 24 to 30 in Northern Ger ii to 24 in the Southern Sunset Friday Sunrise saturday Outlook for saturday Calls for mostly a loudly to occasionally partly Cloudy skies with Chance of rain showers Snow showers in higher elevations and locally dense morning temperatures will be slightly temperatures recorded thursday 4am 4pm the boys and girls in your class that i want to say thank you very for these pictures and for everything you did for for 23yearold Joseph Subic the Homecoming Means the end of an extended after i get off my convalescent leave and the army what to do with i plan to get my Fiancee is in she is working for the foreign office she was in she was at the English embassy in Tehran and she was it feels great to be you dont know How Happy we Are to be Back with you cant compare it with any the warmth that come from the american people Over Here and from this you cant describe it in there doing everything for i was offered another Job in the army in looking in looking to get Back to no surrender7 to Muskie says r r f r d 48 36 41 41 52 30 43 18 21 3o 39 2 32 f d p f m p 4pm 19 34 52 52 39 54 10 27 39 43 41 41 32 30 cd Cloudy Iraln Pearlly Cloudy of far mostly 7th weather so continued from Page i sol utely innocent Carter gave an indication of the stories to come in Fol lowing these Are the acts of animals Carter told newsmen in his Home we discussed very frankly some of the things that have occurred in the last 14 both in among the hostages and within our Carter said be fore leaving at Rhei main a wednesday Carters former White House press Secre tary Jody Powell and Muskie told news men tears welled in everyone eyes hostages and Carters at the his party which also included former vice president Walter Mondale and the a hostages were together in a third floor room the Hospital for about 55 Many returnees wore Paja Carter was subdued in his Airport de parture remarks later wednesday evening after listening to the grim facts of the americans obviously exhausted after the 23hour the former president prepared a Handwritten report for Reagan on his it was carried to Washington by up reacting to Calls urging Reagan to renounce the hostage release agreement with Iran because it stemmed from a Kidnap Carter said the pact is a very favor Able one for us one of which we Are very our nations word of Honor is at Carter i signed on behalf of our country these and it would be a serious thing for us to violate Carter noted in his Rhei main Depar Ture statement that he had told the hos tages he originally froze Between Bil lion and billion of Iran assets and that the has now agreed to return to Iran he said the rest is to be used to pay off iranian Loans or is being held in escrow until settlements of disputes Over claims against when Carter explained the financial transaction to the liberated they broke into Muskie there were several tense How when some of the a hostages asked specific questions about Why they remained in Captivity so Carter then told the returnees about the disastrous res Cue Mission to Iran last april and the rounds of negotiations and was a australian press magnate rescues London times London up the times and its associated London publications Are to be sold to the controversial australian press magnate Rupert its publishers said the Canadia based Thomson Organiza Tion announced the Sale at a news Confer saying it was conditional Only on Mur Doch obtaining agreement from the 50 or so Union branches at times editor chief sir Denis Hamilton said Murdoch had Given guarantees to maintain the editorial integrity of the times and Sis Ter publications the sunday times literary times education supplement and times higher education lauded members of his party said wednesday they said the meeting ended on a Friendly to very warm Muskie and along with Lloyd former counsel to outgoing Treasury Secretary William Miller and Harold Carters assistant Secretary of state for near Eastern presented Here wednesday night the car Ter administrations first detailed protocol of the Steps and provisions of the hostage worked out in the final hours of the Carter Carter Tola a crowd at Rhei main after his meeting with the liberated Ameri cans that they were considered heroes now by the american they give one another car Ter some Are obviously stronger than but i pointed out to them and to the doctors that they Are no longer prisoners they when the meeting was Over at the hos Pital in Bruce the former charge affaires in Tehran and ranking diplomatic officer among the hos escorted Carter to the limousine waiting in front of the medical Laingen embraced the former president held him at arms length and then embraced him a second time before letting him Muskie emotions welled so strongly that Carter stayed in the Hospital far longer than the hostages applauded him so loudly they could be heard three floors Down and through the front witnesses in his departure Carter in my and the people responsible in Iran for this criminal ought to be condemned by All la Loving decent people of the after a visit of More than four hours in Carter departed on the presidential plane at about two hours behind upon his arrival in the former who spent the two Days before reagans inaugural virtually without sleep As he hammered together the final links of the Long and Complex negotiating said he was still tired but very i dont think anyone has gone out of office As Happy and gratified As i he i Haven t had any better Days in my entire he echoing a statement he made at Carter said that he told the hostages they were free to go at any but said he strongly advised them to stay together at least through sunday so that those who Are suffering most from the consequences of their Captivity can receive the strength of the whole group in a period of he said that while on the plane he wrote letters to the families of state department personnel who had worked for months to free the hostages and to some of the underground people who also helped he did not elaborate on the role or identity of the latter Carters Hometown Florist shop has been inundated with Flower orders Many tied with yellow ribbons from across the country this mostly from people pressing gratitude to Carter for the successful negotiations leading to the release of the 52 Recd steel output off Paris up the organization for economic cooperation and development Recd said crude steel production from their 24 steel producing member nations dropped percent from 1979 to Reagan praises hostages for their professionalism7 continued from Page 1 i want you to know of our deep personal commitment to your future and the importance i attach to your return and to the restoration of both your family and professional earlier Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker thursday urged Senate hearings on possible atrocities committed against the 52 former we absolutely must find out the full dimensions of the barbarism and possibly even the atrocities committed by the revolutionary Baker he called for hearings by the foreign relations committee after the passions have Baker declined comment on whether he thought the agreement with Iran should be approved until administration officials i do not wish to Welsh on the agreement made by the United Baker but we have Ameri cans telling tales of terrible former vice president Walter Mondale delivered the letter from Carter describing his meeting with the freed and said Reagan was outraged Over their treat ment in after spending 10 minutes with defended the an agreement worked out by the Carter administration to free the calling it very Strong in terms of our own Mondale made it Clear that he is against any repudiation of the pact that is being intensely reviewed now by Reagan and his diplomatic he warned that to renounce the agreement would be to put the United states in a class with we have had 200 years of abiding by International he if they Are Barbaric we must demonstrate the differ vice president George who escorted Mondale outside to waiting report we ought to review All these reports coming Iran is in an important strategic but Barbaric treatment should not be rewarded or it needs a full review and the administration will go Over Mondale told reporters there was no Dis Cussion with Reagan on the hostage agreement with