European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes february Home hoopla towns still welcoming freed hostages some returnees Are weary of All the fuss from press dispatches Marine Johnny Mckeel the liberated hostage who said hed be Fine As soon As he could get Back to chasing was welcomed Home to Balch saturday by the Dallas cowboys in thousands of people lined the streets to cheer returning hostage Regis an army master and his ailing Mother cheered him from the window of her Hospital tiny threw its biggest party in More than a Quarter of a Century to Mark the Homecoming of Marine Paul but there were signs the hostages and their families were wearying of All the adulation and and some Viet Nam who got icy receptions when they came marching were getting More than a Little some people want to get to work As quickly As they some people say they want to go hide in a Cave former hostage Victor Tomseth said saturday As he and several other hostages prepared to leave new where they were feted with a ticker tape Parade former hostage Steven Lauterbachh a said his son was not too crazy about any further Lauterbachh return to saturday was kept and his Mother vowed to make sure he has some privacy before the cites Homecoming festivities next in a group of headed by a former air Force sergeant who says the hostages Homecoming has become a held a Parade in Indi Anapolis saturday to Honor veterans of the Vietnam especially those who were the american legion withheld endorse ment of the but Art a spokesman for the Indiana american be said for Vietnam Era it stuck in their Craw that they had no Welcome some of our who Are Veter will he this is not intended to take anything away from the he Anna spent her sons official Homecoming Day in the coronary care unit at John towns Lee but the Parade honouring her returning son was routed to pass the Hospital and Ragan was applauding from her Hospital Ragan has been in the hospitals coronary care unit since she com former counsel discloses secret offer Carfer Plo Aid in crisis Atlanta up1 former White House counsel Robert Lipshutz said sat urday that former president Jimmy Carter Laid aside his political ambitions and put the Honor of the nation first in rejecting a secret offer from the Palestine liberation organization to intervene in the iranian hostage Jimmy Carter rejected a very enticing proposal which might have ended the hos Tage crisis earlier but would have tainted the Honor of our Lipshutz he sacrificed his personal political interests by stubbornly rejecting actions which would have endangered the lives of the american Lipshutz said he and Leon a new York spent 1015 in meeting secretly with austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and Herbert the austrian ambassador to Leb he said Kreisky and amry told them the Plo would intervene on behalf of the but there would have to be some thing in it for firm rebuts report on rely tampons Cincinnati up1 Procter 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the United states that a military Mission was not he said a Friend who arranged the meeting with flew from Vienna to Israel to discuss a res Cue with israeli defense minister Ezer even though the israelis probably know As much about Tehran and Iran and the iranian people As anyone in the Weizman and his advisers concluded they could see no Way to conduct a successful military Mission to Rescue our said he said Weizman told Charney the israelis would regard any agreement with the Plo As an american capitulation and abandonment of its longstanding Lipshutz said Weizman warned that a Carter request for Plo help could upset peace treaty negotiations then going on be tween Tel Aviv and even though Israel fully recognized that 60 american lives were at stake in the iranian big Bird in the big Apple former first lady Pat Nixon is impressed and so is her Tricia Nixon Cox but 29montbold Jen Nie Eisenhower and her 20montbold Christopher Cox do what comes they Perch in the big Birds nest during a sesame Street visit in new up planned of Chest pains after receiving a Telephone Call from her son in where the hostages were taken for a period of debriefing and decompression after their release from the residents of Balch Springs saluted Mckeel saturday with what the town billed As the biggest Parade in dal Las county Mckeel told a news conference at the military Academy in West tuesday As far As psychological problems and stress from the Long or Deal were he and the other seven marines would be Fine As soon As they let us go Home and Back to chasing Wom in a news conference on the front porch of his Mckeel told reporters he was overwhelmed and embarrassed by All the Ive never been the hero my keel and he also was a Little disappointed by the marching order for his Parade the cowboys cheerleaders were two Miles be Hind saturday was Paul Lewis Day in and the coordinator of the festivities promised it would be the biggest thing to hit the farm town since it celebrated its 100th birthday in Navy Donald Sharer went into turning Down an offer to participate in fridays extravagant ticker tape Parade in new Back Home in thou Sands of sharers neighbors gathered at an old fashioned patriotic rally Friday night where they Sang god bless veterans Counselor say Vietnam vets who never Rode in ticker tape parades have been watching the triumphant return of the hostages from Iran with bitterness and Carl head of the veterans administrations operation outreach pro Gram in said Friday while new yorkers were showering ticker tape on 23 former depressed and angry Vietnam veterans were probably out getting while the hostages were being offered free trips and tickets to sporting at least on third of the Vietnam veterans in the area were out of said Harry a director of project re turn for a servicemen in these hostages Are haying food brought in Silver said William another project return we have vets coming in who Haven eaten in three a Counselor at a Cleveland a Joe said he Hopes some of the jubilation directed toward the hostages will also be directed toward the Vietnam if Only a fraction of this Public senti ment could be channelled just a Little fallout shown to people who have lost their limbs or others who have emotional prob lems and Are having difficulties in their he the return of the while greeted with Relief and happiness by Viet Nam vets As Well As other is a very hot Issue for a servicemen who remember their own Homecoming in the 60s and said Anthony assistant director of psychology services for the a Hospital in East the veterans feel envy and in they Are saying that the hostages we rent in combat and actually lived pretty Well compared to the Vietnam Terry an air Force Veteran in who was in Vietnam from 1969 to put it More what did these 52 people do there not they sat on their Here they come they get a ticker tape he no Vietnam vet got that kind of he took the abuse from the american people called him a spat on him when he came off the
