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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat of imminent trials capped a week in which the Carter Administration waged a fierce campaign to focus the world's attention on the hostages, hoping that this might help to ensure their safety. Explained a top Administration official: "We are trying to say, 'Look, world, nobody has seen the hostages. We don't know what is happening to them.' " Vice President Walter Mondale complained that "even prisoners of war are guaranteed certain standards of human treatment, but these standards are being dragged in the dirt." Rosalynn Carter voiced the same refrain in campaign appearances...
Meanwhile, Carter opened a new and even more aggressive diplomatic offensive to end the stalemate, and for a time there were signs that events might finally be shifting in favor of the U.S. in at least two ways...
Still, the events at the U.N. and in Iran seemed to offer the U.S. an opening, and Carter tried to take advantage of it. Soon after the U.N. vote on Tuesday, he met at the White House with his national security advisers to outline ways of increasing the diplomatic pressure on Tehran...
During the interview, Banisadr provided some revealing glimpses into Iranian leaders' misconceptions about Americans. He insisted that by exposing the "entire network of corrupt dealings and ties between the Shah and U.S. Government officials," he might have caused Americans to turn on the Carter Administration. Said he: "It is only this policy that can persuade Americans to push for a different regime." He claimed that the Administration was playing a cynical game with the lives of the hostages. Said he: "I don't think that the Americans are concerned very much about the fate of the hostages. They...
State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter called Kennedy's remarks "unfortunate and not helpful." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, said Carter, "regrets any such statement which shifts the focus of concern away from the hos tages and makes negotiations more difficult." Added White House Press Secretary Jody Powell, trying to sound restrained: "You can see how bloody my tongue is from being bitten...