European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes january 1981 atrocity stories with hostages Mac Crews free to Tell of mistreatment hands of iranians by Jim Arwine Bureau chief England stories of mistreatment of the 52 Ameri cans formerly held hostage in Iran Are now being the hostages Tell of being subjected to beatings and mock firing squads at the hands of their iranian revolutionary the world shocked and Crews of macs 5th Mobile Aerial port so maps Here have reason to be grateful the 52 arc now free and telling their some members of the 5th while helping with american evacuation efforts in Iran during january february were caught up in the clutches of the Revo they have a Small idea of what the embassy hostages went i Only got a Small taste of it and i can Only imagine what the embassy hostages went said air Force George a cargo aircraft because the former hostages Are now Wells and other airman of the unit can make their stories Wells arrived with a maps team in Tehran on to help expedite american evacuation people and household goods were being airlifted from Iran on c5 and c141 other 5th maps team members included Clarence Felix Rob Robert Wyatt Robuck and Craylon Dan Kevin Steve Michael Ralston and Mark Calbo and senior air Man John the country was under martial Street riots were erupting into fallout gun Battles Between the Shah army and the a mood of ant american ism had swept the the tension was beginning to get tight by the 5th of Wells re it was Wells Job to supervise the Load ing of the evacuation we were packing up the aircraft were being maxed we soon had to make a decision people or household he said a lot of cargo never made it on the aircraft and was left time was running the madness came to a boil several weeks after the Shah left the Wells put the Date As crowds in the Street were it was not Safe for americans to be Wells and Shaw became trapped in their hotel that we  leave our the hotel was about 20 to 30 minutes from the where other members of the maps team were Awakening to the bluntness of ant american i woke up to a rough prodding in my i rolled Over to find a gun barrel in my said Lapsley in an interview published in the base newspaper we had been captured by University Type who brandished Auto Matic grenades and a homemade he told the the revolutionaries were fighting for control of the iranian air later in the the maps team was rescued by Ira Nian government they were taken away from the fighting at the Lapsley we were driven through the Rio torn streets in a Small bus toward a processing millions of people were in the streets and it seemed everyone of them had an automatic weapon of some even 6yearold the bus was mobbed because we were americans and the Only thing that saved us was our captors firing Over the mobs Heads and driving them once in the we were Given food and taken to the american for House Hunting on pcs of expands program for permissive try Washington the air Force has expanded its program of permissive try for House Hunting purposes on a permanent change of station air Force members selected for an unaccompanied overseas or an accompanied tour where the waiting list for on base housing is More than 20 Are now allowed seven Days permissive try at their own expense to locate of base housing for family this is an expansion of a program started in August which allowed members permissive try to travel to their new duty arrange for and then re turn to the old in under the expanded service members entitled to take family members who will have to wait More than 20 weeks for on base May relocate their families at government expense in the neither the army nor Navy has a similar Russ launch space capsule manned flight May be next Moscow up the soviet Union has launched an automated space freighter into Earth orbit a development that nor Mally signals the approach of a manned the progress12 capsule was fired into a preliminary orbit ranging from 116 to 185 Miles the Tass news Agency it was headed for Docking with the salyut6 space the research Cabin used by All cosmonauts launched the past but both services Are said to be following the of program with Jackie chief of the leave and entitlements Section at the air Force Man Power and personnel gave this example of How the program works an individual at Randolph May get orders to where the housing wait could be More than 20 the member May then decide to resettle the family in at government while waiting for housing in that individual is Al Lowed seven Days try prior to the pcs to find a House in permissive try will also be permitted when returning stateside from an overseas base and when assigned from one overseas station to if the service Mem Ber is assigned overseas from and elects to find interim family housing near the new overseas single service members will also be Al Lowed the permissive try when the Mem Ber is authorized to live of base and knows before leaving the old duty station that will do regulations governing the permissive try and use of military Airlift come Mac flights have been Accord ing to air Force Mac flights can now be used on a space available basis while on the try House Hunting officials also pointed out that on base Tempo Rary living quarters could be used during the also on a space available they did Point that Mem Bers changing bases in close proximity would not be allowed the at the some of the maps team pitched in to help work the communications Center or went on guard duty with the the next the embassy was attacked by what Lapsley said were the Peoples sacrifice Guervil they opened sniper fire while about 60 of them scaled the embassy Hutchinson and Ferrer were caught in a bloody an iranian jumped in front of Hutchinson and was killed by during the Lapsley said he was jumped from behind and forced into a i did see someone fire a Shotgun at Calbo and both went Down and within seconds i was careening through the streets of Tehran with my captors fir ing out the my mind was whirling at the thought of Calbo and Dryden being he i was taken to a Small forced into a Corner and watched by an armed i was questioned at length and accused of being a Cia finally i was re leased and returned to the the shots had missed Dryden and Cal but they had been taken to Tehran University for a locked in jail overnight and then returned to the Wells and Shaw were still trapped in their when revolutionaries came searching for the hotel staff convinced them that none were staying we  leave our rooms because the revolutionaries would come by twice a Wells the two airmen didst know How Long the1 staff could continue to fool the Ary Wells said they had tried to Coni tact the american embassy but phone lines were or if the operator heard English she would disconnect the Wells the two Only had personal pocket knives As i was Wells we had made plans of dressing like lower class iranians and trying to escape to the on after three Days entrapment in the they were Able to Contact the they told us we would have to fend for ourselves until they got the embassy under better Wells we lived on potato chips and soda on the embassy sent a truck to the Back door of the hotel for Wells and before we could get in the we were rushed by about 10 revolutionary searched and then taken to the pm Wells the guards were All Over the they controlled every we were accused of being two Days the maps team was put on a commercial airline flight headed for they were told by the revolutionary forces that it had photos of All the airmen in the teams and they would be shot if seen in the country when we there were very few american people left at the embassy ambassador and his As far As i Wells some of the Marine guards were tied the revolutionaries were wanting to know everything that was going communications to the outside world were severely he As he was made to leave the Wells i had a bad feeling about How the government was being treated by this government and that it was even being the Young look for Christmas Fivey Earold Samantha Brown of South and Tracy of display at lon dons bbl to Centre the Christmas stamp designs which won a National con test sponsored by the British broadcast ing Blue Peter childrens Tele vision their designs and those of other prizewinning entries will appear on 500 million Christmas Stamps and the official British Post office first Day cover for a photo