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...freedom flight touched down in Athens for refueling and then headed for Algiers. It landed at Houari Boumedienne Airport in a rainstorm. In the glare of television lights, Bruce Laingen, the chargé d'affaires at the Tehran embassy, led Kathryn Koob and Elizabeth Ann Swift, who wore the familiar yellow ribbons in their" hair, down a ramp and into the arms of the normally undemonstrative Christopher. Despite beards, the faces of some of the men reflected their exuberance...
...Kathryn Koob, 42, director of the Iran-American Society and one of the two women held for the full 444 days, reported that early on she had been threatened with nightsticks, but the threat seeemed to be essentially psychological. Said she: "It was not a physical threat. They were not swung at me or anything like that." She said she "was treated fairly well physically...
...crisis was only two weeks old when Khomeini startled the world by ordering the release of eight black male hostages and five of the seven women held. (The two remaining: Elizabeth Ann Swift, the ranking Foreign Service officer in the embassy during the takeover, and Kathryn Koob, director of the Iran-American Society.) The explanation he gave, that blacks suffer in the U.S. and that Islam does not make war on women, suggested that the release was intended to soften world opinion, not mollify "America, the mother of corruption." A short time later Khomeini was dropping hints that the hostages...
Blinking back tears behind large horn-rimmed glasses, Kathryn Koob of Jesup, Iowa, sang the third stanza of Away in a Manger. Her voice cracked and quavered. "Be near me, Lord Jesus," she sang, as she asked her nieces and nephews to join in at home. "I ask thee to stay." Wearing a yellow ribbon in her dark hair, she said a shade more firmly: "I'm feeling good and I've lost weight, for which I'm grateful." Her hostage roommate at an undisclosed location, Elizabeth Ann Swift, appeared more controlled. "Merry Christmas to the whole...
...timing of the operation bewildered Mary Jane Engquist of Burke, Va., sister of Hostage Kathryn Koob, director of the Iran-American Society. Said Mrs. Engquist: "Why now? Why not a month ago when nothing was happening? Why not two weeks from now if things are dragging? It just boggles my mind. I did not want military action. My feeling was that since I've waited six months, I could wait a couple more. My heart goes out to the families of those men who lost their lives...