European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                We got in and started but we had not gone More than a Tew Hundred Yards when a second message came to the effect that there were hundreds of people pouring into the embassy compound and that it was advisable that we not return just turning Back to the foreign Laingen and Tomseth found no one willing to take they saw the chief of the senior under the Deputy to the senior under Secretary All seemed unable to do by foreign minister Ibrahim Yazdi a but he had troubles of his within 48 he would lose his Job to Abolhassan and already his authority in revolutionary Iran was so vitiated As Tomseth put had he gone Over to the he not Only would not have gotten those people out of he might Well have been taken hostage Tomseth and Rowland camped All Day in the foreign ministers by apparently willing to Promise them anything to get rid of told Laingen that the militants would be removed the next we didst believe Tomseth it was Clear he wanted us to he wanted us to he didst but we insisted on the americans spent the night on couches in reception rooms on the third the next further efforts to gain government help to oust the embassy invaders proved and another night was spent on the 48 hours after the Iran clergy Domi rated revolutionary Council ruled that the three Ameri cans should be Given Protection at the foreign they were told they could but that Safe conduct anywhere could not be and though they were not heavily they decided to attempt no escape and to do nothing that might jeopardize Resolution of the their change from guests to hostages came Subt almost Tomseth theirs was by far the most civil treatment accorded any of the for All but the last few weeks of the when they were sent to a the three were housed in a Well furnished former diplomatic dining 40 feet by 60 with persian carpets and Crystal they were Given mat card a writ ing materials and a table for table at they were Given a couple of 24houraday Telephone lines to As Well As Access to the foreign ministry telex but these after a almost vestigial diplomatic we found we didst have that much to say most of the said after the first hectic radio messages on the Day of the there was no Contact Between the three men at the foreign ministry and the hostages at the compound until the 443 Days that they were All life at the foreign ministry was if not of the iranian diplomatic staff the career pro As opposed to the political appointees absolutely appalled at what had happened and totally sympathetic to Tomseth but they could offer Little but in contrast to the turmoil at the embassy com Pound a mile to the the office of the Iran America society on Park Avenue was almost som Kathryn the 41yearold was hold ing a staff talking of ways to put the educational and cultural Exchange program Back on its the phone it was an iranian official of the society with word of trouble at the under instructions to wait for a Call from the embassy in such an Koob waited until she could stand it no i called the embassy and i heard this strange voice at the switchboard embassy she then called Laingen Elizabeth on a private i understand youve got youd be surprised whats going on around montaigne Kate was Elizabeth Ann a political on an Extension were under Bruce is at the foreign office the line went the compound had throughout the Day and into the her Bilin Gual iranian secretaries and William Royer a 48 year old teacher and former director of the kept tuned to iranian radio and television stations for news with an open Telephone line to the state depart sent summaries and recapitulation to washing on the afternoon of six iranians arrived at the society but Koob slipped out the Back door with her secretaries and fled to the German just Aroma the after the iranians had they returned to the office and resumed the Calls to in the late a much larger group of iranians appeared and surrounded the there was no the secretaries were but Koob and Royer were taken to the embassy like the other they were blindfolded and forbid Den to the first Days and weeks in Captivity were the worst for Many nearly All were housed in the ambassadors and were bound to chairs or handcuffed and blindfolded 24 hours a they were forbidden to speak and denied exercise and activity of any except for Mea Ger meals and trips to the there were death humiliations before screaming crowds and television Cam at least one mock daily propaganda harangues and cruelties that ranged from incidents of russian Roulette to incarceration in a the women were separated from the men after the first few and the hostages were distributed in smaller groups to various buildings in the but the Rigours were a whispered word by Charles the communications to a fellow hostage Drew Swift retribution from a guard behind him who grabbed my pulled it slammed it into a Wall and told me to shut i shut he in the climate of fear and uncertainty that prevailed at the every move held on the second Duane the Navy Petty they moved me from one room to they blindfolded me for one of the others was moved before when he i heard a Shotgun then they came for the blast was an apparent and no one was what had seemed like a pending execution was simply a move to the next Gillette two Days Jerry a communications and several other hostages were paraded Blind folded before roaring crowds in scenes that were televised to a shocked they took me outside to the he i thought i was going to get it the fear of death was present even in More relaxed the hostages were guarded around the clock by Young iranian Many of them students who were ill at ease with their the first they had about five people in there with weapons they were really said Marine Rodney who feared that he would be shot for a Sickmann was bound so tightly that his wrists and arms he could see say nothing after a could feel very As wearying hours passed into the who would later Awe his captors with feats of Arm Wres thing and grew stiff with there was about 15 of he and we were sitting at this Long and i was tied to the Back of the you could never get out of this except to go to the if you wanted to Lay your head theard put a Pillow on the we just sat there until when they put us on the they tie our hands and feet and cover in the Middle of his second night in Richard the Consul was awakened by Are you Richard Morefield one come with Morefield said he thought he was going to be exe he and some other hostages were herded into a Van and driven somewhere he believes it was a student dormitory in Northwest Tehran and there he was subjected to the first of three mock executions that he would it was absolute he he and five other hostages were dragged into what appeared to be a Shower room and seated on a Plain Wood there was a Drain in the visions of their own blood flowing Down the Drain overwhelmed Morefield recalled so i just started praying mostly Hail he and listening in an agony of suspense As the captors behind them cocked the hammers Ana clicked the triggers of their on the same Moorhead the economics also was awakened about 2 and taken to a a Blanket was thrown Over his and he could hear weapons being loaded into the some other hostage in the car i think it was a Marine whispered when he heard the guns rattle that two people already had been Kennedy but he and a few others were sent to a very fancy where life though still under orders not to he he and his fellow captives were Able to pass notes in bathrooms and pass the time with card books from the embassy Library and censored news magazines on the third Robert a 53year old economics recalled that Ayatollah Kho minis Sayed Ahmed came to the compound to see the persians and Greet them and encourage them in what they were he was fingering his worry beads and smiling and talking to Blucker he didst want to look at any of we were allowed to stand around in this crowd of persians and watch the but he never acknowledged our presence in any i figured at this Point that the whole affair had government Back after the first few the treatment of most hos tages blindfolds came Bonds were kept on but were talking was still but enforcement was meals were More exercise was terrors were ebbing and life began falling into rigorous not for i remained blindfolded and bound and prohibited from talking from to March said i remember that Day because it was my wife birthday and Patricks for Charles an army life As a captive was just the reverse of that of most hostages he was treated reasonably Well for a few then subjected to solitary mock executions and other the change apparently came As a result of interrogations when the militants accused me of be ing a the which began soon after the embassy takeover and continued for were harsh for some and easy for some hostages were openly defiant others were the treatment they were accorded in their Captivity but not appeared to be related to their performances in the interrogations and whether they were perceived to be there were other including their positions on the embassy staff and the degree to which they complied with their captors soon after the embassy Elizabeth montaigne was taken roughly to a gunman who demanded the combinations of locked embassy combinations that she did not in one of the most chilling accounts of the she told Abc news How he had put his gun loaded with one Bullet to her he went and the Bullet went up one chamber Marine Lopez All hell broke february it truth i cannot open those then he went Click and the Bullet went up another there was further dispute Over what she knew and Click the Bullet up another is this Worth dying for the gunman i its and he went and the Bullet went up another and i this Little game must have taken about it seemed an eternity and i can remember my mind being very and very i remember my heart trying to jump out of my he continued on Page 12 the stars and stripes Page 11