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Relatives of hostages can’t relax
By VICTORIA GRAHAM
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - “Relax and be patient,” says
the sign under the big red cross on the door of the church.
But the people inside are not relaxed. They are not
patient.
“How can we relax? Our mothers, fathers, sisters,
brothers — the people we love are there,” asks a girl who
waits.
Ebbing and flowing, about 100 people wait for word
about the fate of their relatives and friends who were
taken hostage by terrorists Wednesday at the B’nai B’rith
headquarters several blocks away.
They wait in a brightly lit, cot-lined basement of the
Foundry Methodist Church. The mood is quiet, almost
fragile. People speak very gently and politely. Two women
hold hands, relatives embrace.
But there is a current of anger. Here and there, angry
young men in jeans and track shoes huddle and mutter.
They come in. They leave without explanation.
One young man exercises on the floor, stretching his
legs, while a man being interviewed on television spouts
hatred for Jews. The young man curses and sneers.
Later in the evening, the families meet with Dan
Thursz, executive vice president of B’nai B’rith. He is
trying to compile an accurate list of hostages, and he
begins reading names from payroll records, guest books
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and any other source he can find. These are the people he
thinks were in the building when the terrorists struck.
About 50 hushed people cluster around. Occasionally, a
name is called and someone says that person is safe. “Are
you sure?” Thursz asks. A name is taken from the list.
But that happens rarely, and when Thursz is done, there
are 120 names still on the list, still presumably on the
eighth floor of the B’nai B’rith building. “I think it’s going
to be a long wait,” Thursz says.
Everyone clusters around the television for news
-bulletins. Afterwards, the room is almost silent and the
, television becomes a grotesque silent movie of comedies,
commercials, singing and dancing.
One woman takes out her knitting. One woman listens to
a radio. A girl with a T-shirt that says “Shalom” picks
away at a plastic cup. One man puffs a cigar. Another
straddles a chair and buries his head in his arms. A
woman declines a tranquilizer and gulps strawberry soda.
Someone munches tuna sandwiches and ginger snaps.
Joking, someone wonders if the hostages will be allowed
kosher food.
“They are very quiet and very controlled but the place
reeks with fear, anger, and resentment,” says a woman
bystander.
After hearing of the gunmen’s demands, the people who
wait shake their heads.
“Fanatics,” says one man. “They’re crazy,” says
another.
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Map locates the three buildings, all within about a mile and a half from the White House,
where in three apparently related assaults Wednesday, bands of riflemen, described as
black Muslims, invaded the headquarters of the Jewish B’nai B’rith Organization, the
Islamic Center, and the District Building, Washington’s city hall. (AP)
Carter wishes
gunman luck
WARRENSVILLE
HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) - Armed
only with a good luck wish from
President Carter, surrendered
gunman Cory Moore is in
county jail awaiting probable
indictment on kidnaping
charges resulting from his two
day siege at City Hall here.
Moore was jailed Wednesday
after receiving a telephone call
from Carter. Secret Service
agents permitted no one to
monitor the call.
But as Moore was taken to the
Cuyahoga County Jail in
Cleveland in lieu of bonds total
ing $200,000, he told reporters,
“He (Carter) wished me luck.”
As he had said he would, the
unemployed ex-Marine surren
dered peacefully Wednesday
morning after a White House
news conference in which Car
ter mentioned Moore.
Carter admitted that promis
ing to talk to Moore even with
the stipulation that he first re
lease the second of two hostages
might be setting a “dangerous
precedent.”
But moments after Carter
completed the news conference
— which Moore was watching
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on a television he had swapped
earlier in the siege for 17-year
old hostage Shelley Kiggans —
Moore freed police captain Leo
Keglovic, 49, and gave him the
two handguns he used to keep
police at bay for 45 hours.
Moore began the siege at the
suburban Cleveland municipal
office complex on Monday
afternoon when he fired three
shots from a .38 caliber revolver
and took Keglovic and Miss
Kiggans, a city employe, into a
nearby room.
Moore did not eat, drink or
sleep for the duration of the
siege. He spoke frequently on
the telephone.
Early in the takeover, he de
manded that whites leave the
Earth or at least bum all their
money. For a while, he insisted
that Carter broadcast an apolo
gy for the way blacks have been
treated in America since 1619.
Police said Moore would go
before the grand jury on the two
kidnaping charges. Maximum
punishment for the state
'charges is 25 years on each
count and up to SI,OOO in fines
per count.
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students from Nancy Creek
Elementary School in Atlanta
left by train Wednesday to visit
former classmate Emilv Pow
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Carter’s press secretary Jody
Powell.
About 40 fourth and fifth
grade students, parents and
teachers made the trip and
were expected to arrive in
Washington in time to take part
in today’s ceremonies
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Minister James Callaghan to
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