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...militants seemed about to go along, Khomeini abruptly refused to take control of the captives and put the matter in the hands of the Iranian National Assembly, which is still to be elected and is not due to meet until late May or early June. Carter cut short his Easter weekend at Camp David and returned by helicopter to the White House. At that point, says an aide. "he had fire in his eyes...
While the President and his national security advisers went over every grim detail of the situation in the Cabinet Room, a startlingly different scene was occurring just outside on the South Lawn. Under the springtime splendor of the cherry blossoms, thousands of youngsters were enjoying the traditional Easter Monday egg rolling. The thick, lightly tinted bulletproof windows of the Cabinet Room could not block out the laughter and the sound of music...
Given Khomeini's hint, the U.N. initiative might be revived, but it remained unclear what visitors the militants would permit. They allowed three American clergymen to hold Easter services for some of the hostages, but they feared that emotional reunions between the hostages and their families might furnish propaganda for the U.S. At week's end the Iranian government was trying to make arrangements for visits by the International Red Cross...
...that they have not set aside their doubts about Kennedy's character. The Senator encounters the Chappaquiddick issue almost everywhere he goes. Last week in the heavily Polish Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, a crowd of several hundred mobbed him. Janet Tokarski presented him with a basket of colored Easter eggs, and an elderly man sprinkled him with rose water, to the momentary alarm of the candidate's Secret Service bodyguards. Nearby, however, Gus Makowski, 44, grumbled, "He's good with the older people, but this kind of stuff won't get my vote. He hasn't been honest enough...
Both sides reacted bitterly. In Iran, the Revolutionary Council members declared that they would make no decision on their next step until the U.S. "clarified" its positionthat is, until Jimmy Carter promised to stop pressuring Iran to release the hostages. In the U.S., Carter spent the Easter weekend with his family at Camp David, pondering whether to give the Iranian leaders more time to change their minds or to impose immediately his long threatened economic and diplomatic sanctions. These would include a ban on all exports to Iran except food and drugs, a request that American allies reduce...