Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 26

REPUBLIC y.r.lay 29, 1982 The Arizona Republic A25 if I don't get what I want, I won't come out aSive' By Randy Collier Republic Staff At 7 p.m., Bill Miller, i ufim news uuecuii at. ivuuu-TV nllnwed renorters to ing FCC officials because it was late at night in Washington and no one, was in the offices. An hour after the hostages were taken, police negotiators Bruce Wise and Rusty Hawkins tried to arrange for a special phone to be placed in the control room, but Quinn re fused. Close became the sole negotiator. At 7:30 p.m., after telling Close he didn't "care who else gets it," the gunman added, "Tell these people, damn it, to get me on television." Close kept repeating, "It's going to happen.

It's going to happen." All during this time, special-assignment officers armed with high-powered rifles were around the studio. At one point, the man demanded that no police enter the room. "I'm telling you, director (Close), if they come in, your ass is fired," he said. $100,000 worth of discontinued styles of Long-Bell! Kitchens. whether he wanted something to eat or drink, but Quinn refused, saying he wanted to keep his head clear.

He told Close he would permit his speech to be put on videotape and replayed to the public. Close told him, "You'll be a one-man show." He told the man that nothing could be done without approval from the Federal Communications Commission. Close said he was having difficulty reach said. He said he knew what he was doing in the newsroom was wrong but it was something he had to do. Villa was injured when he was taken hostage, suffering a cut on his head.

At one point, Close told Quinn that a doctor was outside to treat Villa, and Close offered to trade places with the technician, but the gunman refused. Close kept telling him, "You're a hell of a guy." Several times, Close asked the gunman A camera showed Quinn with one arm wrapped around the neck of technician Louis Villa; in his opposite hand was a revolver pointed at Villa's head. The man appeared fidgety and impatient as he demanded that Close allow him to go on the air so he could tell the world about imminent war. At one point, he told Close an angel had visited him when he was a child and that he had not done what the angel i enter a business office and watch a monitor showing anchorman Bill Close in the studio attempting to negotiate with a gunman identified by police as Joe Quinn. During the conversation, Quinn told Close, "If I don't get what I want, I won't come out this place alive.

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