Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaving her friends, six of whom had come to see her off. Carter embraced her, stroked her hair, and finally stood on the steps to make an announcement: "Come on everybody. This is a time to be happy. Get on board." The six children scampered up the stairs and flew off to Plains. They returned with the plane that night...
...Christopher flew to Algeria to present the first specific American response to the four Khomeini conditions, which had been adopted by the Iranian parliament on Nov. 2. Algeria was the natural intermediary because it had been representing Iran's interests in the U.S. since the closing of Tehran's embassy in Washington in April 1980. Two weeks after the Christopher mission, Iran sent a message that showed some curiosity about the U.S. proposals. On Dec. 2, Christopher arrived in Algiers with added detail on the American position and suggested ways of solving the toughest issue: the frozen Iranian...
...million) and Chase Manhattan ($369 million), had been meeting quietly in New York and London for several days. Consulting with them were officials of the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Once they heard the outlines of the latest Iranian proposals, twelve of them flew immediately in a U.S. Air Force jet to Algiers to help advise Christopher and the Algerian intermediaries...
Iranian process servers demanded that Panama deport the gaunt and wasted Shah, who flew to Egypt at the invitation of President Anwar Sadat. In the U.S. at the beginning of April, President Carter called a dawn press conference to say that he saw progress in the hostage crisis-undetected by anyone else-and won the Kansas and Wisconsin primaries that day with a boost from his TV announcement. A week later, Carter ordered the remaining Iranian diplomats out of Washington and five other U.S. cities, imposed an economic embargo on Iran, and said that claims of U.S. firms against Iran...
...border dispute, there was severe pressure on both sides to end the hostage ordeal. Carter said that the U.S. was strictly neutral in the war but hinted that spare military parts might be delivered to Iran if the hostages were let go. Prime Minister Raja'i unexpectedly flew to New York and complained to the U.N. that Iraq's belligerence was inspired by the U.S. But the fact was that Iran needed its spare parts and its frozen assets, which Carter seemed ready to deliver. Despite eruptions from the fundamentalists, who still hungered for a spy trial...