Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winsten, Policy Director for the SPH, last week called Cairns' efforts to replicate DNA a "major breakthrough in cancer research. He cited Cairns as "one of the world's most highly regarded cancer specialists as well as a leading microbiologist...
...Christopher presented the quick and clean solution, and the Iranian seemed open to the idea. Recalls one U.S. participant in the talks: "He was obviously interested. We thought we were very close to getting something done. At last we had a conduit to Khomeini." But the possible breakthrough was soon smashed. Iraq invaded Iran, and the leadership in Iran turned its attention away from the hostages. The American diplomats switched to the other alternative of detailed negotiations. After the American election, the possibility of a deal faced a new and strict deadline: Jan. 20, the Inauguration Day of Ronald Reagan...
...main narrative this week was written by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who also wrote last spring's cover story on the aborted rescue mission. Contributor John Skow reviewed the events leading up to the final breakthrough, with assistance from Reporter-Researcher Richard Bruns. Using sources he developed on four previous trips to Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, Correspondent Lee Griggs kept close tabs on the preparations to receive the hostages in West Germany. In New York, a TIME reporter specializing in Persian Gulf affairs stayed in close telephone contact with sources in Tehran, ran a network of journalists there and monitored...
Finally, after more than 14 months of false starts and faded hopes, the breakthrough that could end America's agonizing-and humiliating-hostage crisis came, as a dramatic climax to a pressure-packed week of high-level international bargaining. The evidence that the end was at hand could not have been more tangible: at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, which was suddenly closed to routine air traffic, sat a Boeing 707 Algerian airliner, poised to fly the 52 Americans to freedom...
...help Carter, a man hysterically despised by Muslim fundamentalists in any case. But it seemed that way to campaign officials on both sides. Hours after the Majlis vote, early Sunday morning by U.S. time, hostage families were telephoned by the State Department and told to be prepared for a breakthrough. Many of them made ready to fly to Frankfurt and meet the hostages at their presumed arrival point, an Air Force base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Then, as had happened so many times before, expectations sank back to earth. The Majlis said that the hostages would be released in groups...