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A young Tom Brokaw in a yellow, sleeveless sweater and

teal tie plays on the television, intoning on the .“Today

Show..” ANGELA BELK, young wife of hostage WILLIAM BELK,

has a soft Southern voice and fights back tears. (*ABC,

11/23/79)

BROKAW (V.O.)

Week ten of a hostage

crisis that seems without

end. A glimmer of hope

after the release of some

women and Afro-Americans

but little activity in the

weeks since, and the images

of bound Americans under

armed guard have many

losing hope --

ANGELA BELK (V.O.)

I.’m so afraid that I won.’t

see him again. That he

won.’t get out from over

there, because everything --

it seems like everything

they.’re trying to do is

just backfiring, it.’s not

working --

Under these images we hear an undulating drone -- the

constant accompaniment of life then -- coverage of the

hostage crisis.

PRESIDENT CARTER (V.O.)

The United States shall not

purchase oil from Iran. Iranian

assets shall be frozen and the

U.S. shall engage in a forceful

campaign of international

diplomacy against the Iranians...

MENDEZ (V.O.)

Ten weeks State.’s sitting on this?

53-55 OMITTED 53-55

56 INT. D.O. FLOOR - HALLWAY - LANGLEY - AFTERNOON 56

O.’Donnell, frantically grabbing documents and tossing

them into an accordion folder.

O.’DONNELL

The six of them went out a back

exit. Brits turned them away,

Kiwis turned them away. The

Canadians took them in. They.’ve

been there since.

O.’Donnell hands Mendez pages with STAFF PHOTOGRAPHS of

SIX PEOPLE -- the escaped embassy employees -- as he

continues to toss stuff into his folder.

ARGO - Final 15.

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