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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 
     
    
     Graphics 
     
    
     From the Dalhousie Gazette 
     
    
     Canadian Eress,» Broadcast 
     
     News service, the CBC and 
     
     local radio station CJCH. 
     
    
     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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