ABC NEWS SPECIAL: AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE: THE SECRET NEGOTIATIONS {PART 3 OF 4} (TV)
Summary
Part 3 of this 4-part updated "ABC News Special" report on the Jimmy Carter administration's negotiations with Iran to free the American hostages. Highlights include the following: Juan Materno Vasquez discusses Henry Kissinger's and David Rockefeller's advice to the Shah to leave Panama; Aristedes Royo on Iran's conditions for hostages' release; Robert Armao and Lloyd Cutler on the Shah's decision to go to Egypt; Eric Rouleau ("Le Monde") on Bani-Sadr; Shah's ironic letter to Gen. Torrijos thanking Panama for her hospitality; White House meeting (3/25/80) between Christian Bourguet and Jimmy Carter, and Carter's handwritten summary of U.S. position delivered to Bani-Sadr; On 3/27/80 Khomeini releases a phoney letter purporting to be from Carter and Carter reacts with an ultimatum to Iran; Revolutionary Council's conditions for taking over hostages; Failure of 4/1/80 initiative, includes speeches of Khomeini and Bani-Sadr, Carter's reaction, subsequent negotiations, and comments by Cyrus Vance and Hamilton Jordan; 4/7/80 Carter orders Iranian diplomats out of U.S. and new economic sanctions; 4/9/80 U.S. blockade of Iran and Ghotbzadeh's threat to cut off oil; 4/25/80 8 Americans die in Iran rescue mission; Vance's resignation; Mohammed Heikal on Harold Saunders' purported message to Iran; New round of negotiations, includes Sadegh Tabatabai, Edmund Muskie's 8/31/80 letter to Mohammed Ali Rajai; Iran-Iraq War, 9/22/80; Muskie's 10/20/80 statement on the war and its affect on Iran. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: January 28, 1981 Wednesday 9:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:00:20
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T83:0641
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Iran - History - Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Panama
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1981
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Robert E. Frye … Executive Producer
- Robert Roy … Executive Producer
- John W. Lower … Senior Producer
- Frank N. Manitzas … Senior Producer
- Martin Clancy … Producer
- Neil Cunningham … Producer
- Jeff Diamond … Producer
- Robert Murphy … Producer
- Ellen Rossen … Producer
- George Orick … Writer
- Av Westin
- Jan Rifkinson
- Pierre Salinger
- Jimmy Carter
- Materno Vasquez, Juan
- Henry A. Kissinger
- David Rockefeller
- Pahlevi, Mohammed Riza (Shah of Iran)
- Aristedes Royo
- Robert Armao
- Lloyd Cutler
- Eric Rouleau
- Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
- Omar Torrijos
- Christian Bourget
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
- Cyrus Vance
- Hamilton Jordan
- Mohammed Heikal
- Harold Saunders
- Sadegh Tabatabai
- Edmund Muskie
- Mohammed Ali Rajai