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...that point, he let his story trail off, apparently out of concern for his colleagues still in Iran. But other hostages released last Thanksgiving have disclosed that they went through a mock execution; their guards actually squeezed the triggers on their weapons, which turned out to be empty. Afterward the captives were led back to their quarters in a state of shock...
Indeed there was. At that very moment, NBC Correspondent Chris Wallace was walking between the New York and Pennsylvania delegations. He recalled afterward: "One of Reagan's regional political directors came careening down the aisle, ashen-faced, shouting, 'It's Bush! It's Bush!'" Wallace turned to a second source for confirmation and put the story on the air without waiting for a camera...
...feel remorse of conscience because of your riches and abundance?" He urged economic reorganization and a "more just distribution" of wealth. In a land where the church once preached passivity and fatalism, he urged the poor to "do everything legal to assure their families whatever is necessary for life." Afterward, listeners handed him letters asking for help in or der to get running water, electricity, sew age lines and title to the land they live...
...Maggiore island but during a simple breakfast of bread, milk and cheese that he ate one morning with a dozen Benedictine monks. Carter was the only one of the seven leaders to accept the monks' invitation to share a meal at their 16th century monastery. Relating the experience afterward to a rather incredulous British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Carter said that the monks had offered a special prayer for him. He added: "I told them that I needed...
...young Republican named Richard Nixon; of cancer; in Manhattan. The election battle, in which Nixon's attacks on his liberal opponent for being "soft on Communism" first earned him the epithet "Tricky Dick," ended Douglas' political career. She rarely spoke about her onetime foe afterward, but her husband, Actor Melvyn Douglas, was less reticent: "A little, sneaky kind of character...