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...four months, a government-in-exile rapidly deployed itself in Washington, seizing an office complex at 1726 Massachusetts Ave. NW, spending money, filling memos and churning gossip at a frightening pace, appointments filtering out somewhat less frequently. Yet when January 20 rolled around, with all the frenzy of freed hostages and an inauguration, only a few of the hundreds of succabinet posts in various government departments had been parceled out to loyal Reaganites; most slots remained, for the time being, in the hands of previous occupants, or just empty. All in all, not exactly according to plan...
...nation last week welcomed the freed hostages back from their 444 days of captivity with an orgy of emotion. Yellow ribbons were tied to virtually everything that could not or would not resist: trees, lampposts, TV cameras, trumpets, drums, pretty girls, the hostages' homes and public buildings, including the White House. Parades wound through Washington, New York City, Detroit, Milwaukee, San Diego and Columbia, S.C. Others will follow this week, in cities and towns where former hostages make their homes...
...most part, the coast-to-coast celebration was an outpouring of innocent joy. Said Lois Layton, who drove from Norfolk, Va., to stand in a crowd of some 400,000 watching the motorcade that took the freed hostages to President Ronald Reagan's welcoming ceremony at the White House: "It's like a release to me. I couldn't go to Iran and fight, but I can come here and scream." Said Norma Rose of Silver Spring, Md.: "I felt the suffering. Now, I feel part of the miracle of their freedom. It's what...
...terrorists, emboldened by Iran's example, seize another group of American hostages? At the White House ceremony, a momentarily grim Reagan answered: "Let terrorists be aware that when the rules of international behavior are violated, our policy will be one of swift and effective retribution." The freed hostages led a crowd of 6,000 in applause...
...American descending the airplane ramp, Dan Rather's voice broke with the emotion shared at that moment by millions of television viewers worldwide: "The 52 American hostages! All of'em back!" Suddenly the Americans were no longer hostages; groping for a new term, reporters called them "just-freed hostages," "ex-hostages," even "returnees...