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Re: NBC-TV News - "Today" 3/10

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TOWN RAISES FLAG A DAY FOR U.S. HOSTAGES

HERMITAGE, Pa.--Employees of a Hermitage, Pa. cemetery raise another

flag recently, to the collection marking the days that the

U.S. hostages are held in Iran.

The flags are loaned by area families who are determined -- despite

often gloomy reports from Iran -- to keep them flying until the

captives are finally freed.

Meanwhile, dispatches from Teheran on Mar. 10, reported that the

Ayatollah Khomeini has ruled that militants holding the hostages at

the U.S. Embassy may permit the five-member U.N. investigative panel

to visit only those captives accused of crimes. He said that access

to the others would not be possible until the commission's report

was submitted, covering anti-government charges against the

former shah and the U.S.

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