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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not like Viet Nam. Just let one American shed one drop of blood and I will be the first one to invade Iran with rifle in hand...
...west from New York City, working as a horse dealer and "race rider." He sold tobacco in Bloomington, enlisted in the Army in 1861 and made brigadier general in four years. But in 1874 he was defeated for reelection to the U.S. Congress by Adlai Stevenson (Adlai Stevenson the first, people stress in McLean County, meaning the one who went on to become Vice President under Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897). McNulta read law, as was the go-getter's custom, and almost certainly profited by his duties as appointed receiver for an extraordinary number of bankrupt railroads...
...demonstrated so visibly once again last week in Libya. Spurred on by pro-Khomeini slogans from sound trucks, 2,000 demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Tripoli. While all 15 Americans escaped through a side exit, the crowd set fires that heavily damaged the embassy's first floor. The U.S. has rejected Libya's apology as inadequate, and suspended embassy operations-a step just short of breaking diplomatic relations. The State Department complained that the Libyan government had ignored repeated American requests for extra guards (only one was assigned to the embassy...
...that two of their American hostages are spies for the CIA, one perplexing question arose: How could such a document be discovered? Prudent security procedures decree that "sensitive" cables 1) should not contain the real names of clandestine operatives; 2) should not be duplicated; 3) should be among the first documents to be destroyed in the event of an attack on the embassy...
...occasion, he had to retape a TV segment, and when he was asked for the second time why he was running, he gave a rambling, less coherent answer. During a break in the filming, he quipped: "If another problem develops, let's go back to the first tape and use subtitles...