内容摘要：Dergarabedian added that the R-rated “Ballerina” could also be positioned for a strong second weekend, when it goes up against family-targeted

Dergarabedian added that the R-rated “Ballerina” could also be positioned for a strong second weekend, when it goes up against family-targeted

Entering the chancery is like stepping back in time. Rooms on the ground floors were shut and locked when Associated Press journalists visited on a recent night. The rooms are used by student groups and others.Up a staircase, a guide led the AP journalists through the heavy safe door that guarded the embassy’s secure vault room. This area has become part of the Basij museum.

Inside the vault sits the embassy’s communications gear. Those Americans who hid in the room during the takeover rendered the equipment inoperable, removing and destroying individual components of the telexes — teletype machines that could transmit messages over phone lines to the rest of the world.By destroying only the components, the staff could easily put the machines back into use had Iranian security forces rescued the employees, as they had in the Feb. 14 incident.“The list was prioritized, so that the last items to go were the secure teletypes that kept them connected to Washington,” journalist Mark Bowden wrote in his 2006 book, “Guests of the Ayatollah,” recounting the crisis. “When it was decided to begin destroying them, selected parts were culled from the various bits and either smashed with a hammer or cut in half with a saw.”

But saving the bulk of the machines instead only made them curiosity pieces in the Basij museum. A small placard on part of the equipment simply identifies it as a “coding and electronic communication center.”Against a wall near a window air conditioner sits a blue-gray metal contraption that looks like a small wood chipper. A hose runs from it to a vacuum-cleaner-like device sitting over a large barrel.

This was the embassy’s disintegrator, an industrial-style device designed to first shred documents and materials, then burn them to ash inside the barrel.

“It was slow to work and temperamental in nature, subject to jamming at the least provocation,” recounted William J. Daugherty, a CIA officer who was among the hostages. “Within a few minutes, the device went ‘ka-chonk’ and shut down. Using a small commercial paper shredder, we continued to destroy what we could.”Trump, who sees the military as a critical tool for domestic goals, has used the recent protests in Los Angeles as an

to quell disturbances that began as protests over immigration raids.Trump has authorized the deployment of

to the city over the objections of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom. About 700 Marines were also due to formally deploy to Los Angeles.over the deployment, with the state attorney general arguing that the president had “trampled” the state’s sovereignty. California leaders accused Trump of fanning protesters’ anger, leading crowds to block off a major freeway and set self-driving cars on fire.