DF, Carter, KF, Brzezinski, P&P, Jordan, C, Burruss, Fitch, Schoomaker. One morning, for no reason…spirits for days, Metrinko.
3 You’ve Got a Mother The punishment…His mom? Hermening, Golacinski. In an epic gesture…misled and manipulated, Timm. She was not…aggravated suspicion, Barbara Rosen, DH. Timm was appalled…canceling them, Timm, news reports. Then, in mid-April…“how to get them out,” Powell, McFadden’s No Hiding Place (NHP). The travel ban…“do not oppose it,” Barbara Rosen, DH, Penne Laingen, news reports. Opposition was…she refused, Timm, Ebtekar, TT. Hermening was blindfolded…day of his release, Hermening, Timm, Golacinski, Ebtekar. Bruce Laingen…sky faded into darkness, Laingen (interviews and YR), Carter, KF, Howland.
4 Welcome to World War Three Burruss, Beckwith, Uttaro, Fitch, Carney, Holloway Commission Report, photos taken by mission members, Cheney, Smith, Savory, Schoomaker, Kyle, GT, Sanchez, Brenci, Bancroft, Byers, Rowe, Doyle, Long, Ishimoto, Carter, KF, Jordan, C, Brzezinski, P&P, Powell.
5 What the Hell Is This? Already the eight…they turned back, Schaefer, Kyle, GT, Holloway Commission Report. At the desert…Carter said softy, Schaefer, Burruss, Beckwith, DF, Kyle, GT, Walton, Fitch, Smith, Schoomaker, Long, Brzezinski (interview and P&P), Jordan, C, Carter, KF, Christopher, CL, Vance, HC, Martin (Newsweek, “Inside the Failed Mission” [IFM]), 444 Days to Freedom.
6 Two Loud, Dull Thunks At Desert One…no second chance, Haney’s Inside Delta Force (IDF), Martin, IFM, Fitch, Walton, Cheney, Schaefer, Beckwith, DF, Bancroft, Doyle, Rowe, Smith, Byers, Uttaro, Burruss. Word reached…rescue the hostages, Jordan, C, Vance, HC; the White House statement was reprinted in the Washington Post.
PART FIVE
Haggling With the Barbarians
1 A Prison-like Place Hashemi, Asgharzadeh, Keough, Royer, Barnes, Jones, Ahern, Limbert, Metrinko, Daugherty, German, Koob, Ode.
2 Any Possibility of Failure Should Have Ruled It Out Barbara Timm…was not friendly, Timm, news reports, videotapes of TV news from the Carter Center Library. Most Americans…steady months-long decline, Associated Press–NBC News poll. In the final meeting…“I don’t change it now,” Barbara Rosen, DH, Timm, Brzezinski (interview and P&P); the roundup of newspaper editorial reactions was compiled by AP in the week after the mission. It was a dejected…spirited ovation, news reports, Fitch, Burruss, Beckwith, DF, Martin, IFM.
3 S-E-N-D-N-E-W-S After the rescue attempt…six months before, Laingen, news reports. John Limbert…alone for a long time, Limbert, Sharer, Kalp. Summerturned…a big apology, Metrinko, Roeder, news reports, videotape from the Carter Center Library, 444 Days to Freedom.
4 Moral Sadness At home during…“into a catastrophe, Schell (The New Yorker, June 2, 1980). Some of the…in private, Barbara Rosen, DH. In light…“live with the hostages, news reports, videotapes from the Carter Center Library. Despite the dearth…“you thought of the hostages today?,” Carter, KF, Jordan, C, Washington Post, McFadden, NHP, Associated Press chronology, Sick, AFD, TV news tapes from the Morefields, 444 Days to Freedom, Dorothea Morefield, TV news tapes from the Carter Center Library, New York Times. The obstinacy…“if it doesn’t work,” The Iran Hostage Crisis, a Chronology of Daily Developments, news reports, Laingen (interviews and YR), Howland, Bani-Sadr.
5 I’m Going Others responded…like torture, Limbert, Kalp, Belk, Subic. The logistics…a good sign, Lopez, Hall, Kirtley, Persinger, Koob. Kathryn Koob…was gone, Koob. Queen, Miele…Zurich, Switzerland, Queen (interview and IO), Ode (interview and diary), Hohman.
6 The Braying of Donkeys Limbert, Scott (interviews and PG), Holland.
7 Buy Iraqi War Bonds Summer is long…fearless response, Howland. Laingen saw…for emergencies, Laingen, Holland, Limbert, Scott (interview and PG), Sharer, Daugherty, Metrinko, Roeder. Suddenly, Iran…“Stop shooting at it,” Laingen, YR. None of the hostages…war with Iraq, Limbert, Belk, Koob. The window to the cell…dried black, Golacinski, Morefield. Tom Ahern…back in solitary, Ahern, Sharer, Scott. The question of who told what to the Iranians continues to be a source of confusion and dissension among the hostages twenty-five years later. One sweltering night…started to laugh, Keough, Daugherty, Roeder, Rosen, DH, Schaefer. The guard Abbas…own divising, Cooke. Not long…pointless, and cruel, Metrinko, news reports (Metrinko gave me a copy of the letter).
8 It Has Become a Quagmire Iraq’s invasion of Iran…have to wait out this war, Tabatabai, Christopher, CL, Associated Press chronology, Carter, KF, Jordan, C, AP, Sick, AFD, McFadden, NHP. As the American…exposure and pull, news reports, TV videotapes from the Carter Center Library. In Tehran…“Boom!” Roeder. All through October…January 21, 1981, Carter, KF, Associated Press chronology, Jordan, C, Christopher, CL, UPI, AP, TV news tapes from the Morefield family and the Carter Center Library, McFadden, NHP. After Reagan’s victory… other mullahs, Laingen (interviews and YR), Tomseth, Howland, news reports. Month by month…written a year earlier, McFadden, NHP, TV news tapes from the Carter Center Library, 444 Days to Freedom.
9 Weren’t You Fed Amply? In the interregnum…for the first time in more than a year, Turner’s Terrorism and Democracy (TD), McFadden, NHP, Associated Press chronology, Carter, KF, Jordan, C, TV news tapes from the Carter Center Library, Sick, AFD. At the end…suite in groups, Daugherty, Scott, Ahern, Laingen, Tomseth, Howland, Koob. For the hostages’… flicker of hope, Hall, TV videotapes from the Carter Center Library, Metrinko, Roeder. Kathryn Koob and Ann Swift…terminates the conversation, Koob, Ebtekar, TV videotapes from the Carter Center Library, 444 Days to Freedom, Metrinko, Roeder, Morefield, Laingen, YR.
10 We Don’t Do Stuff Like That Before Laingen…were solid, Laingen. If the students believed…sense of completion and accomplishment, McFadden, NHP, Carter, KF, Christopher, CL, Associated Press chronology, Sick, AFD, TV news tapes from the Carter Center Library. Two days before…interrogator
