European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine the 444 Days ordeal in new York times the morning of was Bleak in at the Moorhead Kennedy the missions third ranking Diplo was in his second floor office As a Seething crowd of iranian demonstrators shrieked i remember standing in a window and looking Down on All the noise and ant american the Harvard Edu rated economics specialist i wondered to myself what it would be like to on the Broad Avenue of Takht Jamshid the throng of 450 angry Young protestors had appeared at As it had for to take up its chant death to the Shah death to Carter death to America two weeks on the overthrown Shah of Mohammad Reza had been admitted to the United states for cancer since the demonstrators had grown increasingly hostile in daily protests outside the whitewashed Brick Walls of the Par like embassy the crowds rage had reached a fever Many members of the embassy staff were openly at a Marine guard burst into Kennedy office and shouted everybody downstairs theres a screaming protesters had breached the great wrought Iron main Gates and were pouring Over the some waved clubs and huge posters of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini bobbed on poles As the crowd went sundays Are working Days in the islamic and that 4 began As had Many earlier both inside and outside the the Day was and Earl morning tempera Tures hovered in the 40s As the embassy personnel arrived for joined by dozens of iranians who served in clerical posts and As relations Between the United states and Iran had badly and one result was that the to prank ing officials of the embassy were not present on the Day of the a new Walter had been named the previous april to succeed William Sulli but his selection had been rejected by a new iranian government anxious to Register its displeasure with Cutler had never taken up his the embassy was under the direction of a charge Daf Bruce a career foreign service on the morning of the he and Victor the embassy senior political and Michael a Security went to the iranian foreign ministry on Foroughi ave a mile to the to discuss continuing diplomatic freed hostage Koob Waves to crowd at Rhei main air base before boarding Jet to that left Moorhead in nominal charge of the with Security in the hands of Leland hol an army officer who was chief of Kennedy recalled that the embassy had repeatedly warned the state department after the Shah was hospitalized in the United states that the situation was getting out of hand and that Iran could not be relied upon to protect the embassy in Case of the warning was apparently that was a fundamental Kennedy allowing the former Shah into the United states had Given the militants the excuse they were he adding we threw a burning Branch into a bucket full of As the sunday morning wore the menace from the demonstrators outside the Walls seemed to and staff workers inside watched with mounting some were ordered to lock their safes and it was too the invasion began Between and to put it said James of the All hell broke Loose and we  Stop dozens of americans perhaps As Many As but in any Case most of the embassy personnel trapped in the chancery when the armed with base Ball Lead pipe clubs by some a few rushed into the elsewhere on the at least 14 members of the embassy staff were in the consulate four others were in the apartment building inside the North a few americans were outside the embassy to it was unclear what was happening or what the iranians intended to we did expect the possibility that they would come Over the Wall and Burn some but it was Low on the list of said Duane a Navy Petty officer involved in Low level intelligence the fact that it happened just showed that we were at the the heavy front doors were bolted shut by marines who retreated from the main Gatehouse As the crowds rushed up the Steps and began pounding to get As he fell Westley Williams pulled out his Walki talkie and radioed a warning to All Security personnel in the embassy personnel inside the were ordered to High Security areas behind heavy steel doers on the top floor of the two Story Brick looking out some saw a bedsheets Banner with a message in English suggesting that the demonstrators wanted Access to the building Only to stage a several including who had put on flak jackets and began prying open a Case of shotguns and pistols on the ground floor of the they also carried tear Gas Alan the embassy 29yearold regional Security reached Laingen by radio just As the february charge affaires was leaving the iranian foreign min Laingen decided to stay at the foreign ministry rather than return to the besieged to minimize he ordered that no guns be fired at when it became apparent that the invaders intended to seize the Laingen ordered the destruction of secret no shots were fired and Only tear Gas was used in what proved to be a delaying action to give the document shredders time to Williams recalled that Golacinski asked Laingen permission to go outside to try to persuade the demonstrators to Golacinski went out moments apparently became one of the first soon Kennedy looked out a second floor window and saw Golacinski being led around outside with his hands tied behind Golacinski was outside Yelling in to us to that resistance  work in the Long Kennedy we were we didst know there was a pistol at his in the East Wing of the chancery 30room second activity by american and iranian employees was this consisting of the charge affaires office and the political and communications was sealed off by steel Security a group of about 10 following contingency was locked behind the Sixing Chttick steel doors of the to secret Security they shredded smashed electronic equipment and fed cod books and other secret data into others in sealed off outer offices manned radios and calling Washington and iranian government before landlines went some Calls reached the state but iranian officials were either unreachable or John Limbert a 36yearold political reached the office of prime minister Mehdi i kept saying to the Man on the what Are you going to do and they kept saying that help is on the Way sort of the Check is in the and i kept saying but what Are you going to do there coming through the the iranians got into the chancery by rolling up a attaching chains to the bars of basement windows and ripping them sometime before the in truders began pouring into the there were Between 300 and 500 of them and they came in like water Over a said Charles Jones a communications the embassy he kept moving to higher like people to escape a sinking Williams and another John Mckeel under orders not to met the invaders on a levelled their shotguns and started backing two tear Gas grenades were set off and the marines continued on Page 10 the stars and stripes Page 9