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Aerial reconnaissance pictures were taken of likely landing sites in Iran. In November a group of the big Sikorsky choppers was placed aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz. On Jan. 8 the President continued the deception, declaring at a press conference that a military rescue "would almost certainly end in failure and almost certainly end in the death of the hostages...
September 1972: Eight members of the Palestinian group known as Black September shot to death two Israeli athletes and held nine others hostage at Munich's Olympic Village. The terrorists demanded the release of 200 Arabs from Israeli prisons. A day later, as the terrorists and their hostages prepared to board a plane to leave Germany, police opened fire. The terrorists murdered all nine Israelis. Five of the terrorists were killed; three were captured...
...meantime, an organization of relatives known as FLAG (Family Liaison Action Group) sent four of its members to Western Europe in an effort to arouse sympathy for the hostages. The four women were surprisingly successful in gaining admittance to high officials-so successful, in fact, that they were assumed to have had secret Administration help. But they insisted that they had made all their appointments on their own. Their first stop was the Elysée Palace, where French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing kept a delegation of mayors waiting for almost an hour while he talked...
...Barry Rosen, talked at length in Bonn with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who stressed the necessity for patience in the embassy impasse. Jeanne Queen of Lincolnville, Me., the mother of Vice Consul Richard Queen, met in Rome with Vatican and Italian government officials. The fourth member of the group, Pearl Golacinski of Silver Spring, Md., mother of Security Officer Alan Golacinski, stayed in Paris to see other French officials on behalf of the hostages. Said she: "I haven't been to bed in three nights, but I never felt better in my life. At least we are doing...
...militants took the Timms to a cemetery where victims of the revolution against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi lie buried. Kenneth Timm took photographs. "I knew they had to test me," Mrs. Timm recalled later. "They wanted to feel me out." On the ride back from the cemetery, the group had lunch at the local Kentucky Fried Chicken, and at that point the militants apparently made their decision to let Mrs. Timm see her son. The Timms did not even have a chance to collect their presents for Kevin, including family pictures and an Easter egg decorated by the younger children...