Word: contact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attackers smashed their way into the embassy itself. The Marines-there were seven of them-moved up to the third floor, covering their retreat with tear gas. Radio contact was established with other areas of the embassy community. We were Dixie 14. Dixie 20 was Ambassador Arthur Hummel, who was at home. "I know you're uncomfortable in there, but just hold on and take it easy," Hummel said. He told us the Pakistani army was just a few minutes away...
Dave Fields asked: "Are there some senior Pakistanis who would like to establish contact with the dissidents on the roof?" There were a number of volunteers...
...light and tragic and funny and sad and tears and laughter and tantrums and where are my contact lenses and I've got to go to the bathroom and all sorts of problems." With this torrent of words, in a voice breaking with emotion, Elizabeth Montagne, 42, one of the 13 U.S. hostages released from the U.S. embassy in Tehran last week, provided an insight into the continuing ordeal of the remaining 49 Americans being kept prisoner in the embassy. Montagne's comments were made at a bizarre news conference organized in the U.S. embassy compound...
...California INS investigators have been banned from some campuses, among them Stanford, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C., although these schools have made appointments for Iranian students at local INS offices. Clark Coan, director of foreign student services at the University of Kansas, says that his office has made contact with most of the 269 Iranians on campus. But if some fail to show up to register, Coan adds, "we won't go out and hunt them down. That's an INS problem...
Vlad Georgescu, a Romanian historian, had more opportunities than most of his countrymen. As a professor in Romania, he was able to travel to the West and meet regularly with intellectuals and scholars at American universities such as Columbia and Berkeley. This contact with Western thinkers gave him unique support when he was expelled from his country this spring. The Romanian government did not like his attempt to create a movement for democracy and a Free Romanian University, which were considered signs of discontent and upheaval among intellectuals. Georgescu was arrested and exiled. While at Harvard this summer, Georgescu commented...