Word: donning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On Thursday, when Banisadr first said the Iranians might release some hostages, the student leaders actually occupying the embassy property quickly asserted that they took orders only from the Ayatullah Khomeini, and that nobody was going to be released until the U.S. had sent the Shah back to Iran. Admitted...
A. Your insistence on the legalistic aspects of the embassy siege is specious. The Revolutionary Council did not do it. You deserve the credit for unleashing this rebellion. Don't talk to me about whether the siege is right or wrong. Talk to the very people you have provoked...
Whatever their views of the U.S.-Iran dispute, diplomats everywhere agree that Khomeini's support of the assault is a dangerous precedent. "Under the tenets of diplomatic immunity," explains Robert Beers, executive director of the American Foreign Service Association, "anyone accredited to another country as a diplomat is entitled...
Reagan calls the national campaign trail the "mashed potato circuit," and he has been wandering along it for 15 years. Says he: "I have a feeling now that I don't get on planes. I get up in the morning and put them on, like a pair of pants...
"Oh, Government is a legitimate function," Reagan adds. "When I talk about regulations, I always use the words 'unnecessary regulations.' I don't want medicines that could destroy our health instead of helping us. But then Government goes beyond that protection thing, and they start trying to...