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Iran embassy hostage dies in riding fall
Seattlepi ^
| Saturday, May 8, 2004
| AP
Posted on 05/08/2004 10:13:07 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
RECTORTOWN, Va. -- Elizabeth Ann Swift Cronin, one of two women held hostage for 444 days after the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran in 1979, died Friday in a horseback riding accident. She was 63.
Cronin was the ranking political officer at the embassy when Iranian students angered by American policies seized the compound. She and Kathryn Koob, then director of the Iran-American Society, were kept largely separated from the 50 men also taken captive.
After her release in January 1981, she continued her State Department career with postings in Greece, Jamaica and London and served as a deputy assistant secretary of state for overseas citizens services. She retired in 1995.
The Washington Post quoted a family friend as saying Cronin was riding with her husband, Paul, when her horse stumbled after clearing a jump and she fell from the saddle.
Besides her husband of 10 years, survivors include two stepsons.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Virginia; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 444days; cronin; diplomat; embassy; female; hostage; iran; obituary; ride; states; terrorism; us; usembassy
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posted on
05/08/2004 10:13:07 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
To: DoctorZIn; McGavin999; freedom44; nuconvert; Eala; AdmSmith; dixiechick2000; onyx; Pro-Bush; ...
Another Iran related PING! A Sad One!
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posted on
05/08/2004 10:17:57 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: F14 Pilot
Sad just sad and on the day before Mother's Day no less.
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posted on
05/08/2004 10:19:25 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: F14 Pilot
Prayers for her family and friends.
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posted on
05/08/2004 11:03:18 PM PDT
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: F14 Pilot
when Iranian students angered by American policies seized the compound.Yeah, blame America! Not the Ayatollah.... gimme a break!
To: F14 Pilot
"Cronin was the ranking political officer at the embassy"Gosh! I didn't realize that.
Prayers for her family.
It's very hard to believe it was almost 25 years ago...
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:19:42 AM PDT
by
dixiechick2000
(President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
To: F14 Pilot
Thank you for the ping. May God bless her loved ones.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:58:40 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. --Elmer G. Letterman)
To: dixiechick2000; Pan_Yans Wife; F14 Pilot
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posted on
05/09/2004 3:57:46 AM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(VOTE DEMOCRAT AND LEARN ARABIC FREE!!)
To: RaceBannon
Got it!
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posted on
05/09/2004 3:59:48 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: ValerieUSA
Yeah, blame America! Not the Ayatollah.... gimme a break! Yeah, I noticed that too. It should read:
..."Iranian students stirred to a Shiite-induced hatred frenzy..." or something like that.
May God comfort Ms. Cronin's family.
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posted on
05/09/2004 4:15:36 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(What's Up With Kerry's HAIR??)
To: Allegra; F14 Pilot; DoctorZIn
More than half the student leaders of 1979 were executed by the Ayatollahs in the following years, too.
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posted on
05/09/2004 5:12:43 AM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(VOTE DEMOCRAT AND LEARN ARABIC FREE!!)
To: F14 Pilot
Elizabeth Ann Swift Cronin, shown in 1981,
was one of 52 hostages seized in Iran in 1979.
To: RaceBannon
Thanks, Race!
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posted on
05/09/2004 3:56:16 PM PDT
by
dixiechick2000
(President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
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