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...release remains what it has been for months: the lack of any uncontested authority in Iran willing and able to make the decision to free them. Speaking with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House last week, Jimmy Carter could not hide his chagrin over the seemingly endless cycle of raised expectations and dashed hopes. Said Carter: "Any prediction of a favorable response from Iran has always been mistaken." His hunch? "Wait and see." It has been that way now for more than 400 days...
...audience how protons and such could tumble around and produce enough current to run every Osterizer across America until all the world's avocados had been turned into guacamole thrice over, all the clothes washed and dried faster than they could be soiled, all the cheese grilled in an endless array of toaster ovens...
What it really took, though, was a disaster. On March 28, 1979, in the wee hours, Three Mile Island Unit Two began to hemorrhage, and for the next five or six days, Pennsylvania was no place for the nervous. Reporters are a foolhardy bunch, however, and they swarmed, writing endless reams of copy that would be sent home and pasted under enormous headlines about "Nightmare in Pennsylvania." The best story since Jim Jones et al, started mixing the Koolaid...
...When Reagan speaks of freedom, he is speaking of freedom west of the Rockies. That is where he found his own best America; that is where he continues to find his personal and philosophical solace; that is what he wishes for the country at large?a California dream, an endless prospect of gold and greenery and don't fence...
...reported that for a while after the embassy seizure the hostages were often bullied, and even threatened with execution, by their militant captors, but that early this year the militants eased off and the hostages' main problem was coping with the boredom of sitting in small rooms for endless hours with nothing to do. It is no longer known where they are being held. They were said to have been dispersed from the embassy to 15 cities throughout Iran last spring, and are now, so the Iranians boast, in Tehran hotels. The militants say they have turned over...