Word: 86th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late-night news program on Iran still gets high ratings. And Walter Cronkite has taken to signing off on the CBS Evening News: "And that's the way it is, the 86th [or 96th] day of captivity for those 50 American hostages in Iran." Cronkite's gesture is well meant, but network anchormen don't usually, and shouldn't, inject patriotic reminders into news coverage. In fact, when John Connally argued in a 1977 speech in Houston that the press has a duty to express "a candid bias" for the preservation of the free enterprise system...