European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In i continued from Page 9 donned masks As Gas began billowing through the Mckeel sprayed one attacker in the face with chemical remembering the crated weapons on the first the marines ran upstairs and grabbed armful of rifles and shotguns and fled toward the second floor As the shouting invaders moved up from the on the top the weapons Laden marines reached the secure East they were and iranian employees were let out through the big steel there were close circuit television cameras inside that enabled embassy personnel to see what was happen ing outside the secure but what they saw did not at least one blindfolded possibly was being held in front of the television Cam Over a handheld radio that had been taken from an iranian told those inside that the hostage would be killed if they did not open it was sometime be tween noon and 1 with the bulk of the group facing imminent 10 including Jones and Frederick a communications officer and electronics locked themselves in the to secret vault room at the far end of the Wing and continued shredding the decision to surrender just according to no one was really in and to hold out longer  have changed the outer doors swung open and the eyes watering from the tear rushed searching the they quickly realized that there were More Ameri cans in the vault efforts to Burn through to the vault room with acetylene torches an iranian Leader grabbed a held a knife at his Throat and threatened to kill him unless those in the vault it was now about 3 or Jones and most of the classified documents had been before coming the last holdouts slammed and locked the the finding virtually All documents shredded and the Safe were they attacked the they kicked me in the stepped on my hands and held a gun to my said they wanted to know Why i was helping they thought that As a Black Man i should be on their they said the papers belonged to the people of not to they wanted the combinations to some of the Kupke i was kicked and knocked Down on the there were two or three Guys on each leg and a couple of Guys if you Don Cut your eyes and i i the other Guy then put the knife Blade against my Eye the Bottom of my and i proceeded to squirm and tried to convince them that that want the thing to i was really after these Jones we were blindfolded and hoods were placed Over our we were then led out into the hallway and forced to face the Wall or Kneel or As militants began scouring the embassy the new captives were pulled into the bound with plastic tape and then they were taken where Large crowds chanted god is great Long live Khomeini and other Donald a 37yearold army vividly recalled the moment they took me to the outside of the removed the Blindfold and made me face what looked to me like at least two million screaming they were death to the americans Over and Over and Over and Over until it was like an there was so much vibration from the it sounded like the Walls were going to come Down on top of the whole building was i have never been so terrified of anything in my whole i must have turned White All Over with i muttered to one of the please take me Back and pretty soon they the hostages were marched across the embassy compound to the ambassadors where they were distributed to various tied to chairs and told to keep Rodney a 22yearold Marine said he Felt the surrender had been handled As Moorhead Kennedy ranking Diplomat in embassy when it was Page 10 the stars and stripes Well As if somebody had fired a he we probably would All have been in the two Story consulate the place where american travellers went for Aid and iranian immigrants obtained visas for the United 60 or 70 people were seeking information or on hand also were at least 14 including several foreign service two marines were on duty at the but Richard the 50yearold Consul Gener had Cut Back visa services the Day before because of the and As a result Only one was Richard a consular official who was released after 250 Days As a hostage because he contracted multiple also was on duty in the he said the first word that militants had broken into the com Pound was overheard on Lopez the news we received was very Queen but shortly we started noticing that some of the militants were gathered around the when they moved Morefield gave the word that we were to leave the Queen through a Large sliding door on the North Side of the the consulate had direct Access to bist Metri to their the consular officials found no protesters there and began moving out in Small groups to attract less Lopez remained behind to destroy equipment and drive Back the invaders with tear Gas most of the including Morefield and were captured but others and they gave Lopez much of the we turned to the left and walked not run said three or four blocks away they surrounded us and said come with i youve got the building its and they told me youre a the group i was in was about six Queen we started walking and we got about two blocks when we noticed that a group of militants were following running after we were walking any inclination to run was he when a police officer appeared and fired a shot Over our they were then led Back by militants who shouted Cia and ant american Kim a 26yearold american tourist who was at the consulate to discuss some complications concerning his followed five american consular officials on a circuitous route through the then made his own Way to Mehraban Airport and left Iran without the five consular officials were to have a More noteworthy the consular officials in beginning an Odyssey that was to become one of the most celebrated episodes of the hostage the Robert Kathleen and Joseph Stafford and Cora and Mark made a Lucky turn and hurried to Anderssn apartment Over the next the five americans hid in february three or four including those of two americans being held a Call to the Canadian embassy was greeted with an invitation to in late january they and Henry Lee an american agricultural attache who was away at the time of the embassy were spirited out of Iran with the help of the whose rearguard actions probably saved the five from was not As the sergeant was somehow under the impression that the canadians had a car waiting outside to spirit americans if i had been two seconds i would have been in the Canadian embassy he told lbs but i evacuated everyone and had torn the red stripes off my Blue trousers and thrown an old windbreaker Over myself and tried to look As Scuzzy As possible to pass for an and i was Locking All the barricading As much As possible to give them a hard time to get into the building and the last door i locked i came and i found out later that As i was walking out the door the car from the Canadian embassy was driving it was the Luck of the draw with As the takeover four unarmed including William Quarles and Ladell overheard Williamss radioed warnings and barricaded themselves in a room on the top floor of the 10story apartment building at the North end of the with them was the wife of an iranian employee of the after pulling on fatigues and flak they went to a window and watched in amazement As the iranians moved Over the sometime a band of iranians entered and began searching the apartment which was Al most vacant at the led by a Man with a they soon burst into the room where the marines were Gath hands the gunman the woman was the marines were then led where they encountered a Contin Gentoo iranian National police officers who apparently had come to turn the captors out and the prisoners a heated argument developed Between the police and the a police officer pulled quarless hands Down and the gunman shoved them Back up and that is where they it was a symbolic Victory for the iranian who were now clearly in com at As the iranian mobs were breaching the Walls of the the embassy top Laingen and were just leaving the foreign min they had gone there to discuss possible diplomatic status for some of the embassy military personnel having had Little they were heading Back to the As they reached their waiting the drive Security told them he had monitored a message Over the car there was trouble at the he Tomseth recalled