History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2172 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Hostage Crisis
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The idea
On November fourth, nineteen seventy-nine, Iranian students and activists stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six employees captive; fifty-two remained in captivity.
In practice
Nightly news programmes, in the Yawp's account, reminding Americans of the hostages.
Where people slip
Among the captors, the anchor says, were fundamentalists opposed to Iran's Westernisation; the Yawp adds another oil shock.
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