One Hostage Says

2 0 - EVENING HERALD. Tues., Jan. 20, 1981 Transfer of assets has been completed » WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Carter administration iiandtTstpr today put billions of dollars In frozen Iranian assets in an escrow account for Iran and said it expected the "exp^itious release of our hostages.” Fair White House spokesman Jody Powell said, “The presi dent was informed at 8;17 (a.m. EST) that the govern MfCATUcn cloudy W C A I n t n Thursday. Details on page ment of Algeria has notified the government of Iran the 2. transfer of the previously frozen assets to an escrow ac- ^ . 1 count has been complete. “We now have every right to expect and do expect the VOL. C, No. 94 — Manchester, Conn., Wednesday, January 21, 1981 YOUR HOMETOfTIS NE;W'SrAPER expeditious release of our hostages,” Powell said. An agreement on financial terms for the release of the hostages was announced by the White House shortly before 4 a.m. EST — only eight hours before President Carter was to turn over the reins of government to Ronald Reagan. The agreement broke a 24-houi^ impasse in bringing the 14Mt-month crisis to a close. ‘It was hell,’ one hostage says After transferring the assets — gold, securities and promissory notes — into an escrow account in London, WIESBADEN, West Germany Powell said: "We have done everything that we have said (UPI) — Fifty-two weary but Related sloriea on pages 3 we would do prior to the release of the hostages.” ecstatic American former hostages and 4. "This step completely fulfills all steps agreed to by the jammed toll-free phones on-arrival United States prior to the release of the hostages,” he at a military hospital today to call The State Department spokesman said. loved ones back home, then spent declined to discuss specifics about From the London account, the funds w;ould be placed In a hint of military preparedness, all exactly the same equipment. The hostages most of their first day of freedom in the months of captivity, but when into Iranian hands upon departure of the hostages from rooms that will house the 52 American will be housed two to a room. (UPI photo) bed. asked if the Americans had spoken Tehran. hostages in Wiesbaden, West Germany, have Despite the jubilation, there were bitterly of those long months, he Powell said the escrow agreement, signed by the hints that the past 444 days had replied that in their comments “a United States and Iran early Monday, must be signed by brought moments better forgotten. simple notion of mistreatment is represent^ves of the Federal Reserve, the Central Bank Hostages to take tests '5 ^ One of the freed captives said of the present.” of Algeria'and the Bank of England — all In Algiers. experience; “It was hell.” Asked to describe the months of “As soon as that’s done, the money accumulated in the The Americans arrived at captivity in Iran, Vietnam veteran Federal.Reserve can move into the escrow account in the Wiesbaden air force hospital at dawn Air Force Lt. Col. David Roeder, 41 Bank of England, which will be in the name of the central but enjoy much liberty on two blue air force buses, ending a of Alexandria, Va., summed it up to bank of Algeria,” he said. 13-hour, three-continent journey that reporters in three words: “It was When the government of Algeria certifies the money is WIESBADEN, West them.' flowers have already been either physically or men began on a runway in Tehran. hell." being placed in the escrow account in the Bank of Germany (UPI) — ’The 52 Back pay vouchers await placed in the rooms and a tally — during their cap Jimmy Carter, who was denied the He said some of the hostages had England, the hostages should be freed, Powell said. U.S. hostages will undergo the hostages, covering the wide variety of food, in tivity. chance to announce the conclusion of only 15 or 20 minutes' notice that they “I do not know of any other problems” that would hold medical and psychological 14 Vk months they have been cluding American Once given a clean bill of the hostage crisis in the last would be freed, while others knew up release of the hostages, Powell said. But he declined checks at the Wiestoden held in captivity. For the favorites like hamburgers health, the hostages will be moments of his presidency, flew to several days in advance. to predict a timetable. Air Force hospital and be servicemen among the and hot dogs, has been able to spend their back Wiesbaden today for a three-hour Cannon said the flight to freedom U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Earlier, Powell said the interest proposal "may also be free to enjoy the simple hostages, the hospital will stocked. pay at the PX — a very im stopover as President Reagan’s was the first time during the long Christopher leaves the U.S. Embassy in the last chance this adminstration has to work this out, pleasures of eating.be the first taste of Medical checks will take portant item since most special envoy to show America’s joy crisis that all 52 hostages were Algiers today, en route to -the Foreign given the time constraints. Come 12 o’clock (noon) and American food, shopping American military life in up much of the first hours will have only the clothes that the 444-day ordeal was over. together at the same time, confir the hostages are not freed, then all bets are off.” Ministry to meet Algerian officials. (UPI for new clothes and calling over a year. They will be 9 f arrival. Special medical they will wear on leaving Carter, who called the Iranian ming reports they had been kept at Officials explained moving the Iranian funds in the friends and relatives back required to. shave their teams arrived Saturday, Iran. photo)' behavior during the hostage incident separate locations. United States into the Federal Reserve places the money home. beards. Already in place including psychologists and There will be few restric “really abominable," was expected After a nap at the hospital, some of under direct control of the government and facilitates the If the arrival follows the are tailored military un doctors trained in tions on their movements, to arrive at Rhein-Main air base the freed hostages strolled onto the international transfer. procedures used in the iforms, complete' with brainwashing analysis. especially for the civilians. about 8:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. EST). balcony, which was covered with tiny release of 14 previous name tags. They will be closely Any of them who want to State Department spokesman Jack American flags and yellow ribbons. hostages, the men and But there also will be a debriefed to give doctors a stroll outside the hospital Cannon said it was a “very happy Dressed in casual clothes, they women will be taken in taste of the niceties of life. chance to find out if they and talk with reporters will day’’ when the 50 men and two chatted with airmen on the ground Hostage families^ hopes a o ' large Air Force buses from Red. white and blue have been mistreated — be free to do women arrived in West Germany, below and even signed autographs the Rein-Main Air Force after a 4,055-mile journey that took and tossed them over the railing. base to Wiesbaden, 25 An incredible new boiler is being marketed by them to Athens and Algiers. One of the Americans seemed miles to the west along a “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” American flag- tense at first, until someone shouted boosted to new heights West German autobahn. one of our nation’s largest manufacturers. waving crowds chanted on their "We love you I” They will be housed in a By United Press International arrival. On his first full day as a private “ Now we have something to "They worked long and hard at it wing of the Air Force The hostages, who were taken cap Disappointment was transformed citizen. Carter called the Iranian rejoice about,” she said. and we won’t quarrel with the results hospital built before World tive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran behavior through the 14W month to rejoicing among the families of Joseph Subic Sr. of Redford so far. We are just so relieved, happy Cuts your lieatmg bill^ War II and once used to Nov. 4, 1979, were freed after the crisis “really abominable." But he the 52 hostages today with word from Township, Mich., father of hostage and thankful that the ordeal appears house (jierman officers. United States turned $8 billion in said his main concern was the the State Department that planes Army Staff Sgt. Joseph J. Subic Jr., to be over.” The hospital is located by vp to 35% ormore. frozen Iranian assets. hostages and "I’m just thankful carrying their loved ones out of cap broke a 14-month silence to discuss The families’ apparent optimism behind a guarded brick tivity would leave Tehran in hours. Most had only one thing on their they’re all alive and all free." the settlement Uiat will end his son’s was a marked turnabout from the wall in . the heart of mind when they stepped into their “Welcome home!” shouted the Dorothy Royer, mother of hostage 444 days of captivity. consensus of opinion among the Wiesbaden, which is home New HYDRO-PULSE’' Dave Shannon cut Me nei^uarters. crowd of 2,(X)0 at the giant U.S.

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