We had been held passive by a threat to hostages who were even then being savaged.
She also handed the phone to other hostages.
One senior law enforcement official said the use of an incapacitating agent to free hostages was unprecedented.
It is particularly problematic to resolve on a course of action in response to hostages taken by the group.
From 1977 to 1989, the American public kept the pressure on its leaders to do something, anything, to free hostages or at least avenge them.
All the militants were killed with no casualties to hostages & damage to the temple.
No Christian prince would do such a thing to innocent hostages?
"We don't want to see it linked in any way to American hostages."
Reporters were able to shout a few questions to hostages who appeared briefly on the hospital balcony.
"With the President, said North, it always came back to hostages," the report says.