Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, it would take an intricate series of specific actions to set the actual release into motion. English, French and Farsi versions of the final text of the complex agreements would have to be compared. Carter would have to sign certain papers and order certain actions for the U.S. Beyond the $2.2 billion positioned for delivery, European and American bankers apparently would have to transfer other funds before that Algerian airliner could take off. Once it was in the air with the Americans, Iran's leverage over any further cash deliveries would evaporate...
...been akin to an emotional sweatbox of unrelieved uncertainty over their ultimate fate. Would they be freed? Tried as spies? Executed? For their families at home, the months of recurring rumors of imminent release, fed by Iranian propagandists, had been painful too. Even on the verge of the actual release, noted Dorothea Morefield of San Diego, whose husband is consul general of the captive U.S. embassy: "Everybody's walking around with their fingers crossed." Said Susan Cooke of Memphis about her hostage son Donald: "I just want to grab him and hang on for dear life...
...first actual shifting of assets took place a few hours later on Friday morning. Acting on a transfer contract signed by Treasury Secretary William Miller, officials placed a label on some 4,000 gold bricks stored in a federal building in Manhattan, denoting the Bank of England as the new owner. Simultaneously, other new labels in the Bank of England switched an identical amount of British gold into U.S. possession under instructions that it be ready to turn the gold over to Iran once the hostages were free...
...Bruce Laingen and two aides had been in the Foreign Ministry on business when the attack began, and they were held there, sinking gradually in status from diplomats to captives. Their number brought press estimates of the hostage population to "about 60"; as it was determined weeks later, the actual figure was 66. State Department vagueness about providing a check list of staffers on the payroll Nov. 4 became understandable two months later, when the Canadian government smuggled home six Americans who had managed to slip away from the U.S. embassy during the confusion of the attack and taken refuge...
Sondheim's lyrics convey a sense of character wholly lacking in his music. Whether ghoulishly preparing a menu of "shepherd's pie peppered/with actual shepherd" or acrimoniously bristling...