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International News -1 y America held hostage? By Shirli Sensenbrenner Yearbook Staff Writer United States foreign policy has been dramatically affected within the past months. Militant students overtook the U.S. Embassy in Iran and took 50 Americans hostage. While the U.S. was still debating over this, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. These events have created many problems for the Carter adminis- tration. On November 5, 1979, the U.S. embassy in Tehran was overtaken and the occupants held hostage. They remained inside those walls, with the exception of women and blacks who were released. The students wanted to trade the 50 Americans for the former Shah of Iran, who was in the United States after being exiled from his country. Iran had undergone a revolution in which the -1 religious- tradi- tionalists, led by the Ayatulloh Khomeni ousted the Shah's pro-western, modernizing government. The new government is ex- tremely nationalistic and anti-American. While the U.S. was involved in seeming the release of the hostages, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In the last week of the decade, Soviets overran the country, excuted the president, and set up their own govern- ment , never thinking the world would protest. But the United States and other nations were outraged. This crisis, which may lead to a new cold war, is claimed to be the world's worst since Hitler's invasion of Poland. The U.S. has retaliated by cutbacks in grain sales and other trade, a pending boycott of the 1980 Olympics, and consideration of reinstatement of the draft to build up strength in the ground forces of this country for possible use in any conflict evolving from this situation. These crises brought an uneasy end to the 1970's and a new look for the future foreign policy of the U.S. One of the brighter incidents of the hostage situation was the cloak and dagger episode involving the Canadian govemmentfs embassy in Iran and a hand full of American embassy employees. It seems that during the seize of the American embassy by rnilitent Iranians, some of the employees fled through a rear exit and ran to the near by Canadian embassy building. These people were secretly hidden by Canadian officials until necessary papers could be make up to allow these people to leave Iran under the cover of being Canadians. . L, , . . I g H Q Algv MW .wt 4, iw . 1-it r' EN T GC N ' LJN L ES X I - . .H y 9 Q x, MP1 IETNAM vUNDE'-R vc ' nf . , -A U,.vU5. 1 A - - ' A. lf !'..'5Ul Cv'VOU t M 1 't'if'1-r-+i't ..:'-Tv-f ' fri, ,.,.. it E 'i 7 'l 'i W 'V' V 'W' N 5