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PHOTO NUMBER:

PC-53558

MOTHER OF U.S. HOSTAGE VISITS SON IN IRAN

TEHERAN, Iran--Mrs. Barbara Timm, of Oak Tree, Wis., shows the months of

strain as she is assisted by her husband, Kenneth, through a mass of

reporters on Apr. 21, after visiting her son, Kevin Hermining, a U.S.

hostage being held by militants at the American Embassy in Teheran.

Mrs. Timm, who spent 45 minutes with her 20-year-old son

in a meeting supervised by several of the Islamic captors, said

that "we never quit holding hands. There was lots of hugging, a lot of

touching, there were no tears. I kept telling him how strong he was,

and he kept telling me about how strong I was." A major part of their talk,

she noted, was about the Knights, a home town high school basketball team,

and her son's pleasure at learning the team had made it to the state

championships this year.

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