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...domination of their old-fashioned families, who want them to stay in the house and accept an arranged marriage. Peasant women have lost their traditional role in society; low-wage jobs have taken the place of a poor but independent subsistence life on the land. Political Economist Saskia Sassen-Koob of Columbia University has described the process that has created a growing female labor force as the "feminization of the job supply...
...February 1980. Swift recalls, the students began to take better care of the hostages, improving their food and letting some outside visitors in Two weeks before Easter, she and Katherine Koob, the other woman detained in captivity, were put together again. Recalling their counter-terrorism training which instructs hostages to establish personal relationships with their captors--the two began talking to the students and trying to teach them English. But, Swift says, they found their guards wary and "well aware that we were trying to subvert them...
Swift says she was very relieved when, in November 1980, she and Koob were moved from the embassy compound to a nearby prison "The embassy compound was just so uncontrolled you could never tell what was happening to you," she explains. The move meant we were really under government control. In the great big prison...
...Kathryn Koob, of Jessup, Iowa, will soon take up a new assignment in New York City with the International Communications Agency. Her adjustment, she says, has been mainly in trying to find a new apartment and new credit cards-"the same kind of thing you go through when you have your purse stolen." She does get a bit miffed when autograph seekers call her Ann, confusing her with Elizabeth Ann Swift, with whom she spent her captivity. Swift, of Washington, D.C., is fighting gamely to keep from regaining weight she lost as a hostage...
Though the press was banned from the hotel and its grounds, several former hostages and members of their families walked up to reporters and TV crews, who stood behind barricades (yellow, of course). Most of the former hostages wanted only to express delight at being home. Kathryn Koob, accompanied by Elizabeth Ann Swift, said that the homecoming was "like having a bath in love." Added Swift: "We're all just walking around with silly grins on our faces." Jesse Lopez of Globe, Ariz., confided that his son James, a Marine sergeant, was "his old crazy self," repeatedly cracking jokes...