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An idea that was “thoaght up one »‘day While doing "a paper" and led to a phone call to the" American Embassy in Iran has 'given two CKDU

reporters one of ,, the bigger

and more imaginative news scoops to come out of the“

student media lnra long time.l

Kerry' DeLorey and Martin Cohn, two journalism students at the University of King’s College phoned lran Monday afternoon and talked to one of the students holding ‘50 American hostages in the American Embassy.

The interview which was some fourteen minutes in length was picked up by the

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DeL'orey, Who . initiated the,

.project, said he didn’t know how the idea came to him.

“The idea just crossed my mind one day when l was doing a paper at home," said DeLorey, “I went and checked with Mike Wile at CKDU and he said he Would cover the cost of the call. So I went ahead and called.”

DeLorey first called the overseas operator in Montreal to ask for the number of,_ the Embassy. ‘

“l felt a little foolish at first asking for the number", said

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DeLorey, “but there were very few problems. The op- erator told me she had the number but that there would be an hour and a half‘wait for

4' the call to go through."

DeLorey asked the operator to 'try anyway and to phone

1 him back at CKDU when she

could reach Tehran.

DeLorey and Wile then sat down to discuss some ques- tiOns to ask if he ever did

' reach the Embassy. They

didn‘t have long to-wait.

'_ "It only took 25 minutes to reach lran,” said DeLorey. “Suddenly I was connected with the Embassy. I got really

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frantic and my heart went up into my mouth. The phone rang only once before it was answered. “when somebody answered the phone, l asked it it was the American Embassy in Tehran. He told me it was the American nest of spies." Martin Cohn .then joined DeLorey and the two reporters »quizzed the man who identi- fied himself only as'an lranian student named “Y” for about 15 minutes. . “When he came on at first he was reading a. prepared ‘statement," said DeLorey. “But .as we asked more questions he began to ad-lib a

little more. Some questions we asked him he just plain evaded."

The student did tell the two King’s students that the Americans were being well looked after and were comfort- able. He also said any of the hostages found guilty of spy- ing would be tried according to Islamic justice.

DeLorey said he had no more plans to call any other news hot spots around the world for a while.

“I don‘t know of any,” said

' DeLorey, “Not at the present

moment anyway. Phoning Iran was enough of an experience. l’ll never forget it."

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