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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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On a crisp evening last week, Amy Carter stepped up to a podium on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, and pressed the button controlling the lights on a 30-ft. blue spruce and 50 smaller trees around it, one for each state. But for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

It is the address of the U.S. embassy, which has been in the hands of fanatical followers of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini ever since Nov. 4. No one knows for sure where the idea of sending Christmas messages to the hostages originated, but it caught on with amazing speed. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the man who triggered the crisis by entering the U.S. last October for medical treatment-Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi-suddenly left the country last weekend for Panama. Early Saturday, the Shah with his family boarded an Air Force jet at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

In Washington, the Administration was guarded in welcoming Khomeini's statement that there would be visits. But the announcement contributed to a feeling that the crisis might be solved through diplomacy after all. The President's spirits seemed greatly improved. Confidants noted that he had more color in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sounded out U.S. allies on possible economic moves against Iran during two days of hopscotching around Western Europe. He consulted with government leaders in London, Paris, Rome, Bonn and finally at the NATO meeting in Brussels. The allied governments previously had denounced Tehran for holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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