Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostages, the confinement had been akin to an emotional sweatbox of unrelieved uncertainty over their ultimate fate. Would they be freed? Tried as spies? Executed? For their families at home, the months of recurring rumors of imminent release, fed by Iranian propagandists, had been painful too. Even on the verge of the actual release, noted Dorothea Morefield of San Diego, whose husband is consul general of the captive U.S. embassy: "Everybody's walking around with their fingers crossed." Said Susan Cooke of Memphis about her hostage son Donald: "I just want to grab him and hang on for dear...
...front door. It's not a complicated thing." Most of the branches keep funds on deposit at their home offices in the U.S., and each bank's top officials apparently could order them transferred to the Federal Reserve System. The Fed, in turn, could order the funds held in escrow by the Bank of England. Iran seemed likely to trust the English bank, which had loudly protested the freezing of Iranian funds in the first place...
...their protest as a revival of '60s activism. And echoes of Vietnam protests and talk of police intervention were clearly out of key at a protest whose goal, after all, was simply to get the University to provide a round-the-clock studying area. The GUERRILLA members were rightly fed up at the snail's pace of the University's bureacruatic channels, and when Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, suggested to some at the sit-in that they bring their plan before the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), they pointed out that avenue had already proved...
...many local residents, the case has at least provided a chance to vent frustrations over their inability to control their schools as they see fit. "People are fed up." says Waites. "We have a say-so over Judge Lee; we elected him. But not over Judge Scott." Bumper stickers have sprouted, reading LEE IS HOT-SCOTT IS NOT. A Mobile, Ala., lawyer who is president of the conservative Taxpayers Education Lobby has arrived in town to represent Lee, frankly "looking for a classic confrontation." Says Dan C. Alexander Jr., with obvious relish, "This is the first time...
...notion of book burning is unthinkable to many and appalling to others, if only because it brings to mind the rise of Adolf Hitler's Germany - an event marked by widespread bon fires fed by the works of scores of writers including Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells and Jack London...