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The Evening Sun
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1981
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savagery' is revealed
Associated Press
The Deed American hostages have told of
brutal @Reatment by their captors, and former
President Carter has accused the Iranians of
"unbel(@able acts of criminal savagery."
MrtgZarter, in Plains, Ga., after returning
from Wiesbaden, Germany and greeting the re-
turned Americans, said today the 52 were
forced, one by one," to run the gauntlet of jeers
and kicks before being permitted to leave Iran
for freedom.
Th&CObrutality included beatings, strip
searchfo solitary confinement, a mock- execu-
tion and Russian roulette.
Mr Barter called the Iranian acts described
by some of the former hostages the work "of ani-
mais
host."
He
Rid one of the hostages told him he had
been struck on the way to the airport but then
added; "Well, that's all in the past."
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"They tried to convince them we were the vil-
Jains, that we had robbed and cheated the Ira- *
nian people for 35 years," Mr. Carter said.
"And even after month after month, they [ the
Iranians] still took pleasure in abusing them psy-
chologically, even physically."-
The former president called this "savagery
against absolutely innocent hostages."-
"Even when the hostages were being loaded
on the plane, they carried them to a fairly dis-
tant point by bus and made them walk through a
gauntlet, one by one, without even the protection
of the whole group. Jeering and sometimes even
kicking to try to debase the Americans leaving
Iran," Mr. Carter said.
Malcolm Kalp, an'economic adviser accused
of being a CIA agent by his captors, told his
family in a telephone call he was beaten and
spent 374 days in solitary confinement because
he repeatedly tried to escape.
Lisa Kalp, 17, the ex-hostage's daughter, said
from Massachusetts that he was "full of hatred lashed out at the captors.
and hostility toward them [his captors] right
now."
Kalp's 12-year-old son, Andy, was so excited
about his father's release that the boy broke out
in hives.
Michael J. Metrinko, a political officer from
Olyphant, Pa,, said he was held ia solitary for
812 months, and Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr., the
economic counselorsfrom Washington, said he
and others were lined up in their underwear,
guns to their heads, for a mock execution.
Marine Sgt. Johnny McKeel told his parents in United States that the militants forced her to
Balch Springs, Texas, that an Iranian guard play Russian roulette in an attempt to get infor-
knocked out his tooth and an interrogator said
his mother had died. He said he was told if he
wanted to go to the funeral he had to give the
Iranians information, but that all he gave was
name, rank and serial number.
After talking with her son, Wynona McKeel
"They're stupid, barbaric people. They're
fanatics ... They say they're religious, but they
don't worship the same God I do," she said angri-
ly
Asked if their son had any special requests for
food when he returns home, Mrs. McKeel said he
had told her, "Mom, don't cook any lamb or
rice."
Elizabeth Montagne, a secretary freed with
four other women and eight black hostages three
weeks after the embassy takeover, said in the
"Our Americans in Iran were mistreated
much worse than previously revealed. The despi-
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Richard Queen, a consul freed in July because
he was suffering from multiple sclerosis, said he
and others were held nearly five months in a
windowless warehouse basement, and that dur-
ing a "Gestapo raid" armed guards in white
masks stripped them to their underclothes and
searched them.
The 52 remaining hostages were freed Tues-
day, 444 days after their capture, and flown to
West Germany. Mr. Carter, whose administra-
tion negotiated their release in the final days of
his presidency, spent 80 minutes with them yes-
terday as a special envoy from President Rea-
gan. In an airport statement before flying back
to the United States, he said:

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cable acts of barbarism which were perpetrated
on our people by Iran can never be condoned.
Iran, in my judgment, and the people responsible
in Lon for this criminal act ought to be con-
derpped by all law-loving decent people of the
woph It's been. an abominable circumstance,
that will never be forgotten."
`s 50 men and two women spent their first .
dayuof freedom making telephone calls home,
"taling showers and telling stories," as Marine
Sgtcaul E. Lewis of Homer, IL., put it. Some
came out on the balconies of the third-floor wing
of the Air Force hospital here, enjoyed the spar- partment spokesman Jack Cannon said yester- ; contact her today to try to arrange a meeting.
kling sunshine and chatted with hospital person-
nel.
The "decompression" process was well under
way, a State Department spokesman reported.
Doctors were examining the returnees. Psy-
chologists met with them to assess any mental
damage done by the treatment given them and
. their readjustment needs. Officials were discuss-
ing their experience with them.
There was no word yet when they would be
sent on to the United States for the long-awaited
reunions with their anxious families. State De-
day they would remain in Wiesbaden for "per-
haps several days" but were free to leave when-
ever they wished. But he said they were advised
to delay their departure.
ther, William Keough, was resting and would
Mr. Carter's private.meeting with the freed
Americans was "emotional to the point of awk-
wardness" and so moving that a photographer
was asked to stop taking pictures at one point, an
aide to the former president said.
Spokesman Jody Powell said that as Mr. Car-
ter shook hands with each one, "Tears were well-
One relative ignored the government's urging
that the families not come to West Germany so
as not to: interfere with the reorientation
process. Allyssa Keough of South Burlington, Vt., Sing in everybody's eyes-the hostages and Car-
19-year-old daughter of the superintendent of the > ter's."
Tehran American School, arrived by plane from:" The ex-president described the meeting as
the United States yesterday. She was told her fa -.
`one of "the most moving and gratifying" acts in
his life. He said the freed Americans applauded
when he told them he had frozen between $11
billion and $12 billion in Iranian assets after the
embassy takeover but returned less than $3 bil-
lion to get their freedom.
"Terrorism has proved not to pay," he said.
But back in the United States, criticism of the
agreement to return all of Iran's frozen assets
was developing, and this was heightened by the
reports of Iranian brutality. There were sugges-
tions that repayment of frozen Iranian assets,
cancellation of legal actions against Iran and
other unfulfilled provisions of the agreement be
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