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...have an agreement." President Carter, who had been spending his last weekend in office at Camp David, helicoptered to the White House, where his speechwriters were at work on a major announcement. Carter went directly from the helicopter to his Oval Office. He first summoned Secretary of State Edmund Muskie to the White House. Then they called U.S. diplomats in Algiers for a briefing on the negotiations...
...assembly, met solemnly in private and emerged to declare the legislation to be in keeping with Islamic law. Learning of the decision, U.S. State Department Spokesman John Trattner said only: "It's a step in the right direction." Also dampening any euphoria, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie suggested that the Administration would work at the problem right up to the moment that Reagan is inaugurated. "The real deadline is the 20th, not the 16th," he told reporters, thus abandoning an earlier publicly stated termination date for positive action by Iran...
...nuns, an event which prompted former president Jimmy Carter to suspend aid to El Salvador. In both cases, rightist military forces and military officials were suspected. The U.S. government initiated an investigation of the nuns' slaying. But despite inconclusive findings and the reported opposition of former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, Carter resumed both economic and military support to Duarte shortly before leaving office...
...frozen Iranian assets, much of which was encumbered by American claims and attachments. Another problem appeared to be the Iranians' insistence on a multibil-lion-dollar escrow account to guarantee the return of the late Shah's U.S.-held assets. Said an aide to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie: "That's really where it's hung. They are serious about it. But they have to understand that we are at the limit of our authority." Washington has long promised to help locate the Pahlavi assets in the U.S. and block their expatriation, but has no power...
Although the President and State Department could have been tempted to cut off further discussions with those whom Secretary of State Edmund Muskie publicly described as "very stubborn, irrational" Iranian officials, they vowed to keep channels of communication open with Tehran, even as they began to lose hope that any progress could be made in their remaining three weeks in office...