Word: georgetown
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...Metrinko, a 1968 Georgetown University graduate who was a political officer at the embassy, it was a particularly blessed moment. He was one of the hostages treated most harshly by the militants. He spent a total of 261 days in solitary confinement because of his constant defiance. His captors were convinced that their Farsi-speaking prisoner was a CIA agent. They interrogated him more than a dozen times, usually late at night and for up to seven hours at a time. Says Metrinko: "They had broken into my office safe, and they had the names and phone numbers...
...Reagan Administration. Charles Wick and Alfred Bloomingdale, California friends of the new President, have moved there. The most elegant piece of real estate in town, of course, has been taken by the Ronald Reagans, but there are still a few choice homes for sale in the Georgetown section. Prices start at about $150,000-for one of the neighborhood's quaint 7-ft.-wide townhouses -and go up to sums that would buy a whole subdivision in other U.S. cities...
Lights, camera, action. On a video tape made at a house in Georgetown, Florida Congressman Richard Kelly, 56, tells an FBI agent posing as the representative of two fictitious Arab sheiks that he will help them immigrate to the U.S. Then, just before stuffing $25,000 into his coat pockets, he says: "If I told you how poor I am, you'd cry. I mean, the tears would roll down your eyes." In a Washington, D.C., courtroom last week, the tears were streaming from his wife Judy's eyes as Kelly, who was voted out of office last...
...elections and ensconcing Raja'i as their figurehead Prime Minister. But the intervening war with Iraq greatly strengthened the President's hand by giving him an active military role as Commander in Chief and winning him the crucial support of the army. Says Barry Rubin of the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies: "Banisadr has won popularity through the war effort. Now he has just a short time to try to tar his opponents with the settlement. It won't remain a hot issue for long...
...citv in the nation where a night-blooming cowboy has no place to hang his ten-gallon. The desert will be greened in March when Mike O'Harro, 41, who owns two of the capital's most popular discos plans to open a C & W establishment in Georgetown. The venture will be aimed at what O'Harro calls "Government superchic, not rednecks." While conservative Washingtonians are more attuned to Blue Moon than bluegrass, O'Harro is confident that his Saddletramp saloon will be a boomer. As Ronald Reagan's rancheros take over the town, western...