FILE - In this Dec. 25, 1980, file photo, four American hostages, from left, William Belk of Columbia, S. C.; Thomas Schaefer of Tacoma, Wash.; Donald Hohman of West Sacramento, Calif.; and John Craves of Reston, Va., listen to the latest demands for their release in Iran. Schaefer, a retired Air Force colonel who was the ranking military officer among the 52 Americans held hostage in Tehran, Iran for 444 days before being released in 1981, has died Tuesday, May 31, 2016, of congestive heart failure Tuesday at a hospice in Scottsdale. Ariz., his sone David Schaefer said Friday, June 3, 2016. He was 85. (AP Photo/File0
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