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tages had been killed. This was untrue and done only to terrorize the captives. When they were taken to the bathroom they constantly asked for hot water and a shave. They did this so their voices could be heard by any Americans who were in rooms along the halls. At one point he recognized the voice of someone that he had been told was shot.
In order to have some form of communication the hostages devised a secret code which worked by tapping on the walls. The first message that Col. Holland received was from a fellow hostage who had received a letter that said the Steelers had won the Super Bowl. Col. Holland tapped back and asked who lost. But no one knew.
“When you’re there for a long time, if they pick on you, you pick back. Sometimes they’ll fire a gun at your ear and your ears will ring for a long while,” Col. Holland commented.
When Ronald Reagan won the election the Iranian students were very proud of themselves because they felt that they were responsible for this happening.
During Christmas of 1980 they were allowed to ask questions of the Algerian amabassador of Iran. It seemed they were going to get them
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