European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 9 armies didst fight the hostage War the Banks did continued from Page 8 statements confused one Day the revolutionaries demanded return of the the next they wanted an apology from the for its past role in the Ayatollah remained above the Bat intervening Only when it appeared that one Side or the other in iran would gain we Are under the orders of Imam Kho the militants whatever he says we will in the political fortunes Rose and fell with the the opinion polls showed Carter leaping ahead of his demo cratic Edward Kennedy of patience is a sign of sure Carter we feel that we have been abandoned by our government and the american peo 64yearold Robert the eldest wrote at Christmas time As three Christian clergymen conducted Christmas services for the hostages that Bleak soviet troops were pouring into Carter took a new telling the iranians they must end the showdown with the and face the real threat in the Region the had counter effect but the chilled relations had a counter effect As on the soviet Union vetoed a Effort to have the Security Council impose International economic sanctions on in 1980s first the United nations seemed the Best Hope for a negotiated solution to the the Security Council had appealed repeatedly for the hostages and the International court of Justice condemned on new years Day Sec Retar general Waldheim flew to he was chased by crowds and snubbed by but he believed he had made something of a truce settled Over the iran Banisadr welcomed when Abolhassan Banisadr was elected president officials were iran finally had stable Lead they and for Mer foreign had been one of the More conciliatory voices in the there will Berio major difficulties be cause this affair of the hostages is a minor the new iranian president a commission charged with investigating the revolutionaries allegations against the Exsah and the arrived in Tehran arrangements were made for the commission to visit the hostages and for the iranian government to take custody of but the hand of supreme religious Leader Khomeini on March he barred a commission visit to the and through his silence he allowed the militants to defy Banisadr and refuse to hand Over the a month later Khomeini ruled again the hostages must stay in the Mili Tants an angry Carter struck breaking diplomatic expelling 35 iranian diplomats still in the and ordering new economic allies later imposed limited trial threats during the delicate period of me iran lawyers went to court in Panama seeking the sex Shah extradition to his the fearful and ailing exile suddenly took Wing flee ing to Tehran in again threatened to put their american prisoners on the captives were oblivious to most of these their Days had fallen into a dulling routine of the longer in the More Ive come to despise my captors for taking my Freedom without me Ever hav ing done an iranian any hostage Donald an army said in a letter but six of their colleagues in Tehran were Able to follow events from Canadian embassy hideouts where they found shelter after eluding the iranians in the november in late their Canadian protectors made their the who were staying at various diplomatic residences in were supplied with Canadian passports and were spirited out of the caper thrilled who deluged their Northern neighbor with Joyful when he severed diplomatic ties with iran april Carter hinted strongly that military action would be officials spread word that what was contemplated was a naval and it could come As Early As it was a on the night of april the commandos were on their ninety 90 air eight helicopters and six transport planes took off from a base in Egypt and from the Navy Carrier but by the time they rendezvoused in the desert darkness 200 Miles from Only five helicopters were the plan called for at least commanders scrubbed the Long planned but in the getaway a Heli copter smashed into one of the eight men iran Secretary of state Cyrus who opposed the military the embassy militants announced they had scattered the hostages to a dozen Ira Nian cities to foil future Rescue the americans sporadic letters Home no no iranian outsiders would see them again for eight the crisis entered a Long summer of its Lone Bright spot the release of hostage Richard Queen on july a Bright spot dimmed by the discovery that he was suffering from multiple Khomeini had decreed that the new Ira Nian parliament would decide what should be done with the but the parliament procrastinated through the sum Mer tied up in the political Wrang Ling Between the liberals led by Banisadr and conservative clergymen evolution the crisis was Banisadr despaired in late death of Shah on july the Exsah died in but his passing had Little effect on the iran new prime former High school teacher Mohammad a blamed saying the United states does not want the hostages it was that no iranian politician had the stature and political Dar ing to Call for to the hostage hold then the one Man with the magnetism to Bend a nation in a moslem Sabbath Sermon Khomeini listed four conditions for the re lease of the hostages a pledge of non interference in iran return of the stolen wealth of the late return of the iranian government funds Frozen by car Ter and termination of All court Law suits seeking damages from the Ayatollah had finally Given guid he dropped his demand for an apol both sides eventually found the terms eleven Days Iraq invaded the iraqis saw in iran political chaos an Opportunity to grab Back Border territory they considered iran was ill re an International outcast because of the it had Little political or material support from the rest of the and it sorely missed the billions tied up in on iran parliament adopted Khomeini four conditions As the official terms of two Days As crowds of iranians roared hateful chants outside the the Graffiti smeared and As the 52 hostages passed the anniversary of their americans voted Republican Ronald Reagan into this presented the iranian leadership with a deadline they had Only 77 Days left before they would have to Deal with Rea an unknown in the Equa when one Tehran official suggested iran might wait for reagans inauguration before seriously the president elect advised that such a move would be pretty things moved quickly from there on in the hostage answers parliament on the Carter administration responded to the parliaments it gave the noninterference but on the issues of the Pahlavi the Frozen iranian assets and the it cited constitutional and other the iranians messaged Back with objections or questions about the counter offer on nine Washington replied with clarifications minor on the iranians abruptly in creased the hostage demanding guarantees totalling at least billion of it in government they reasoned that the Cash and de posited in algerian Central would ensure that All of iran Frozen funds and All the Pahlavi assets in the would be returned to the monumental demand was rejected by officials As unreasonable and denounced across the country As the iranians and the final Hec tic negotiations with algerian diplomats acting their second Christmas Day in Captivity was a More hopeful one for our 52 prisoners of As the president elect called they heard from algerian envoys that negotiations were under we have Faith and have had Faith for More than 400 hostage William Keough said in a filmed on the new chief negotiator for Behzad said his country generally accepted the terms for a Warren the laconic Deputy Secretary of flew the next Day to where he remained to the very midwife to the Resolution of the final agreement in new York and Washington and lawyers and Diplo Mats haggled out the Nabavi announced a final agreement and Carter did the same Early the next a Day and a half of Las minute delays but then the billions were shifted across the seas in the Flash of telex signals and coded Telephone after Sundown tuesday in the hostages were bused to Mehraban Airport and waiting algerian past the final taunts of their at Tehran 1981 just minutes after the Carter presidency passed into history the jetliner wheels came and the hos Tage War was
