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While the invaders were recovering from the tear gas and regrouping for fresh assaults, Lopez herded some 60 people -14 Americans, the rest Iranians who had gone to the consulate for visas-upstairs to the second floor. There he divided them into small groups that he dispatched downstairs to slip out onto the streets through a side door. Five Americans, including Lijek, managed to steal through back streets to the Canadian embassy, where they were hidden and soon joined by a sixth. They were all spirited back to the U.S. just a year ago this week...
...hostage population to "about 60"; as it was determined weeks later, the actual figure was 66. State Department vagueness about providing a check list of staffers on the payroll Nov. 4 became understandable two months later, when the Canadian government smuggled home six Americans who had managed to slip away from the U.S. embassy during the confusion of the attack and taken refuge in the Canadian embassy. That gallantry was a rare occasion of unalloyed joy for the frustrated and furious American nation during the hostage agony. Not the least of the pleasure was the outrage...
...York City, the cold has continued almost unabated since a sub-zero Christmas Day, and January temperatures have averaged 19.7°. Some stingy and cold-hearted "coldlords" were giving up trying to provide heat in rundown tenements, and a few had let boilers slip into disrepair-or even intentionally damaged them. Said City Heat Inspector Theodore Klopsis: "There is plenty of heating oil, but some landlords are deliberately turning off their boilers...
Sculpture restoration is delicate work: a slip of a tool can destroy craftsmanship that has survived thousands of years. Restorers at the National Museum of Reggio Calabria kept the statues for three years and cleared them of superficial dirt. But to remove encrusted sand, gravel and stones, the prizes were shipped to the Archaeological Museum in Florence. Experts there spent five years employing special scalpels, tiny hammers driven by compressed air and a new, ultrasonic cleaning technique to remove the remaining detritus. What had saved the works, besides the restorers' loving labors, was the sand into which they...
...commotion; for Hill Street is part of a nameless inner city, and the Blues are the men and women of the local police precinct. Each episode traces a day in the life of the precinct, as the Blues try to defuse street crime, play social worker at knife point, slip out of an octopus stranglehold of red tape, keep their private lives from ending in a singles bar or the divorce court...