Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the sands had barely settled in Iran's Dasht-e-Kavir desert before Carter took to the road. On Sunday he slipped away from the White House to an undisclosed location to meet with 150 of the commandos who participated in the raid. Afterward, the President made sure that Americans learned of the visit by emotionally describing to Democratic congressional leaders how Colonel Charlie Beckwith, commander of the assault force, had apologized for the failure. The teary-eyed President embraced Beckwith and replied: "You have nothing to apologize for. I thank...
...next day, Carter flew to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where he visited four of the men who were badly burned in the desert conflagration. It was his first trip outside the White House-Camp David axis since last Oct. 29, and though he avoided overt politicking, it was a well-photographed journey. It evidently did nothing to hurt him in the Texas primary, which he swept five days later. Senator Edward Kennedy, who spent a minimum of time campaigning in Texas, avoided any direct criticism of the hostage rescue attempt, though he tried to get political mileage...
...driver escaped after a headlight was shot out by the U.S. troops. The unexpected traffic along the remote road, the certainty of discovery, the deaths of their comrades and the need to get the burn victims to hospitals all forced a difficult decision: the Americans had to leave the desert immediately. There was no time to let the aircraft wreckage cool to recover the bodies. Instead, the rescuers had to rescue themselves. They climbed into the remaining C-130s and took...
...White House, the crisis managers had gathered earlier. Mondale, Brzezinski, Vance, Brown, Jordan and Jody Powell jammed into the President's small study. They discussed how, if at all, the news of the embarrassing failure should be broken. Some leaned toward remaining mum, letting Iranian authorities deal with the desert wreckage and the night's mysterious events in any fashion that they chose...
...must be satisfied with the minimum of equipment. If you have too much, you blow the whole thing." Nor could the Nimitz dispatch more helicopters to help out when the three were disabled. There had been only eight on board. Had there been more, the force in the desert would have had to wait the whole night for their arrival, an unacceptable risk...