Word: freed
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...counter the damage, some aides urged Carter at a strategy session earlier this month to begin campaigning, at least in a few nonprimary states. Carter refused the advice. He sounded a little regretful of his pledge not to campaign actively until the hostages are freed, but he was unwilling to reverse himself. Several aides privately found his refusal stubborn and illogical. The President would permit them only to state publicly that he will not stay in the Rose Garden indefinitely: after the Democratic convention in August, he will come out and campaign...
Like most of his political predecessors, Tolbert was one of the "settlers," or Americo-Liberians, descended from the freed American slaves who founded the West African nation in 1847. Throughout Liberia's history, the settler group dominated both the government and the economy of Africa's oldest republic, despite the fact that it represented only about 3% of the country's 1.7 million people. Tolbert, a Baptist minister who had served 20 years as vice president, made a degree of headway in reforming the top leadership after he assumed the presidency in 1971. Alarmed by an outbreak...
...Though the country was long one of the most stable in black Africa, there was increasing dissatisfaction with Tolbert's autocratic ways and with the corruption and inefficiency of his top-heavy bureaucracy. Perhaps most resented was the dominance of the so-called Americo-Liberians, descendants of the freed American slaves who began settling on the western Guinea coast in 1822. Though the vast majority of the country's 1.7 million people are impoverished tribal Africans, most of the political power and wealth have traditionally been controlled by the "settlers," the Americo-Liberians. Tolbert's father...
...verdicts of the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial. By December, after a monthlong trial in which he and six others (the eighth alleged plotter went underground) were unsuccessfully prosecuted for conspiracy to damage the Seattle Federal Building, he was in jail for contempt of court. All seven would have been freed had they not provoked the elderly judge with catcalls during the proceedings. At one point, two of them presented him with a Nazi flag...
...Tehran: Unless the Revolutionary Council took custody of the hostages by March 31the day before the Kansas and Wisconsin primariesthe U.S. would impose sanctions on Iran. Soon afterward, the governments of major European nations and Japan sent letters to Banisadr urging that the hostages be freed. After waiting fruitlessly for three days for signs of movement in Tehran, Carter sent Banisadr a second warning on Friday, March 28, again through the Swiss embassy...