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...point, this ploy seems to have been successful. Gaddafi did send a personal note to Khomeini urging once again that the hostages be freed. But the request had no impact at all on the Ayatullah for a reason that should have been quite clear to the White House: Gaddafi had no influence with Khomeini. Even more baffling was Brzezinski's use of the unorthodox Billy channel when State Department routes for approaching Gaddafi had been carefully cultivated...
...just wish there were 52 more with me." So said freed I U.S. Hostage Richard Queen last week, after descending wearily from a C-141 StarLifter at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, B.C. Leading the well-wishers were Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Queen's younger brother Alexander. Said Muskie: "Richard, may I say on behalf of the President, the State Department, myself and all Americans, we welcome you home...
...casual visitor is likely to spot similarities between the two West African republics. Both countries became havens for former slaves in the 19th century. In Sierra Leone, the "creole" descendants of these settlers still dominate the country's business and educational elite-as did scions of the freed slaves in Liberia until the recent coup. Sierra Leone gained its independence from Britain in 1961; seven years later, Stevens took power after a revolt led by low-ranking soldiers. That power grab bore a certain resemblance to the army-led coup in Liberia, headed by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, that...
...month. The Hanigans, according to police, next stripped and tied the Mexicans and beat them with pistols and a metal rod. The cattlemen were alleged to have scorched the soles of Ruelas' feet with a hot poker and threatened to castrate and hang the trio. Finally the captors freed the aliens, pumping shotgun pellets into their backs and legs as they scrambled across the border to Agua Prieta...
Other Carson cronies also spread the good news. The wife of Carson's attorney, Henry I. Bushkin, known to Tonight fans as "Bombastic" Bushkin, told her father Max Beck, who bought 5,000 shares and netted a $4,496 profit. Frederic J. Freed, a law associate of Bushkin's, bought 4,000 shares in his father-in-law's name and later sold them for a $4,980 gain...