People: Feb. 23, 1981

"Looking for a good story," aspiring Journalist Cynthia Dwyer, 49, borrowed $500 from her mother last April and caught a flight to Iran. Last week she returned with what she admits may be "the only exclusive I'll ever have." To get it, she endured nine months in a Tehran prison, a trial on espionage charges, conviction and finally deportation. Delighted to be back in Amherst, N.Y., with her husband and three children, the "53rd hostage" was saving most of her experiences for a book she plans to write. Dwyer did say that she had...

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