Article: Ex-hostage's enduring message: Let's talk; Close Up.(News)

Article: Try, try again. (Bruce Laingen on Iran) (Beltway ...
The Nation;  September 5, 1987 ;     600 words ... ... Try Again Failing to influence Iran by selling it weapons seems ... tradition. In August 1979, Bruce Laingen, then charge d'affaires at ... to act in ways that refute [Iran's] suspicions that we have ... S. Embassy was stormed; Laingen and fifty-one of the others ...

Article: Unfaded memories: 444 days of captivity; Minnesotan L. Bruce ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 31, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... engagement with Iran since the hour I left," Laingen said in an interview ... internally, by them," Laingen said. He remains ... nuclear ambitions of Iran's current Supreme ... was no surprise to Laingen, who had served previously in Iran in the 1950s, after ...

Article: FORMER IRAN HOSTAGE L. BRUCE LAINGEN TO SPEAK AT ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 5, 2006 ;     456 words ... ... press release: L. Bruce Laingen, former hostage in Iran, will speak Tuesday ... current situation in Iran as well as new trends ... foreign policy today. Laingen was the charge d'affaires ... taken over during the Iran hostage crisis on Nov ...

Article: Tracking Iran's anti-U.S. fervor: L. Bruce Laingen, ...
Reading Eagle (Reading, PA);  September 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... interference in Iranian affairs, Laingen said. First came the Russian czarists ... the Americans wanted to control Iran, he said. As Laingen practiced his Farsi -- the prominent Arabic dialect spoken in Iran -- and the Iranians tested their ...

Article: Former U.S. hostage in Iran wants policy reform; ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 29, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... contributes to Iran's severe economic woes. Laingen is willing to tell ... have it. Second, Iran is a big country ... million people and, Laingen believes, is destined ... unanimous in the Laingen family. His wife ... still "down on Iran." And this three ...

Article: Laingen gives his captivity suit to hometown museum.
Iran Times International (Washington, DC);  October 3, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... after being held hostage 444 days, Bruce Laingen and his fellow hostages were set free. Laingen stepped out of the plane in his gray, pin ... through captivity and now a piece of history. Laingen's celebrated suit is one of many personal ...

Article: Former American hostage and embassy chief for Tehran to speak at ...
PR Newswire;  April 21, 1989 ;     660 words ... ... April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- L. Bruce Laingen, the former charges d'affaires for ... 34th and Walnut streets. In June 1979, Laingen was appointed chief diplomatic officer ... invaded by Iranian terrorists who took Laingen and other American foreign service officers ...