love for Iran
medical exam
mock execution and
Mohammed and
Montazari and
moved after failed rescue mission
moved back to chancery
moved to private home
moved to top floor of chancery
negotiation with demonstrators
political views
relations with captors
release and return home
response to invasion
on revolution
room at Komiteh
on television
terrified
threats to kill
Limbert, John W. Sr.
Limbert, Parvaneh
Linderman, Jimmy
litigation
“Little Ali”
London
Long, Wayne
Lopez, Jimmy
capture of
mock execution and
release and return home
shorted out electricity in chancery
Luce, Clare Boothe
Lugar, Richard
MacNeil, Robert
Mahmoud
blocked
from hostages. See also under specific hostages
from strangers
Majlis
Khomeini on
Mandani, Ahmad
Maples, Ladel
marines. See also specific marine hostages
“Mary.” See Ebtekar, Nilufar
Masirah, Oman
Mass, materialism
McAfee, Carl
McBroom, Bud
McGovern, George
McGuire, B. J.
McKenna, Frank
McLain, James
Meadows, Dick
media. See also newspapers; television; specific topics
Carter and
decline in coverage of hostage crisis
families of hostages and the
interviews of hostages. See also specific hostages
rescue mission and
viewed by Iranian students as an ally
medical care for hostages
Mehrabad Airport
Metrinko, Harry
Metrinko, Michael
after returning home
Akbar and
Ali Sharsar and
anger
attacks on Khomeini
awards
background
beatings
Behrouz Sharsar and
books read by
boredom and despair
Christmas events and
clergymen and
correspondence with Bowden
daily life during captivity
food and
Ghotbzadeh on
guards’ hostility toward
Hamilton Jordan and
handcuffed for two weeks
interrogations
invitation to visit Germany
Iran-Iraq war and
letters from family
letters to parents
Limbert and
love for Iran
moved after failed rescue mission
moved from consulate waiting room to chancery basement
moved to Tehran mansion
parents
personality
at Qasr prison
in “punishment” cell
reaction to initial protests
reaction to invasion
read that hostages escaped
release and return home
religion and
return to Evin
on the revolution
Roeder and
solitary confinement
“spy document”
suspected of spying
Swift and
view of his behavior in captivity
Meyer, Edward C.
Miele, Jerry
suicide attempt
television film of
military options of U.S. See also United States, punitive options against Iran
Miller, Scott
Miller, William
mining the harbors
ministers. See also clergymen
American, seeking “spiritual resolution” to crisis
Miramar Naval Air Station
Mirdamadi, Mohsen
mock execution of hostages
Moeller, Mike
Mohammed (guard)
monarchy, Iranian/Persian. See also Pahlevi monarchy
Mondale, Walter
Montagne, Elizabeth
Montazari, Husayn-ali
Moore, Bert
“moral patriotism”
Morefield, Dorothea “Dottie”
Morefield, Richard
background
on being released
capture of
cell at Evin
Ebtekar and
moved from embassy to a basement
Rupiper and
morning meeting
mosque network
Mossadeq, Mohammed
Moston, Gary
Muhammad
mullahocracy
mullahs
Mushroom Inn. See also specific hostages
library at
Muskie, Ed
Muslim Students Following the Imam’s Line. See also hostage takers
Khomeini and
Nabavi, Bezhad
Naimipoor, Mohammad
National Security Council
National Students Day
native Americans
naval blockade
NBC
Needham, Paul
Nelson, Jack
New Year, Iran’s
New York Daily News
New York Times
News-Tribune of Tacoma, Washington
Newsom, David Dunlop
newspapers. See also specific newspapers
Kuwaiti
Nimitz aircraft carrier
nuclear war, fear of
nurses
“October surprise” theory
Ode, Bob
anger
Ann Swift and, background
Bruce German and
captured
Christmas events and
Coffin and
diary entries
expected Carter to attempt rescue
Hamid and
health problems
Hohman and
mock execution and
moved after failed rescue mission
relations with roommates
release and return home
on television
view of his behavior in captivity
visa applications and
Ode, Rita
oil
and the shah
oil crisis
oil exports, Khomeini’s threat to cut off
oil facilities, plan to destroy Iran’s
oil purchases from Iran, banned by Carter
Oman
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip”
Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza (shah)
assent to power
background and overview
Bani-Sadr on
Bruce German on
calls for return of the
from Americans
from hostage takers
from hostages
from Khomeini
petition
critics and criticisms of
death
downfall. See also revolution Iranian
entry to United States
Carter and
consequences of
factors that weighed in favor of
warnings about
Yazdi and
financial assets
Gallegos on
international commission to study crimes of. See also under United Nations
Limbert on
Metrinko on
move to Egypt
move to Panama
opinions about allowing him to stay in U.S.
state-sponsored assassination of
supporters
U.S. support for
as (violent) dictator
volunteered to leave U.S.
William Quarles and
Pahlavi monarchy
Pakistan, U.S. embassy in
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Panama
effort to extradite shah from
shah’s move to
Panama City
Paquin, Donald C. See Ahern, Tom
Patie
Peace Corps. See also Limbert, background
Peacock Throne
Pentagon. See also rescue mission, planning
chiefs’ meeting in “Tank” at
Persian Gulf
warships in