Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When we finally reached safety, Ambassador Hummel praised us for "having done more for ourselves than I could get the government of Pakistan to do." He was absolutely right. I don't care what President Carter says. I don't care what Secretary Vance says. We came out all by ourselves. It was our Marine guards who saved us. Nobody else...
...Iranians seem to have concentrated on the men in their efforts to get information about embassy activities. James Hughes, 30, one of the embassy's military personnel, was blindfolded and made to sit on a table during an interrogation...
They obtain an I-20 form from a college certifying that they can speak or will learn English, that they have adequate academic credentials and that they can pay their way. With the I-20, they are able to get a student visa. They can then complete their education in the U.S. provided they remain enrolled full time. But many become illegal by dropping out, taking a job or staying on after graduation...
They are aided by the fact that although the U.S. maintains strict numerical limitations, there is no rigorous monitoring of foreigners once they get into the country. The U.S. resembles a sieve-the easiest country in the world to get into or out of without permission. "Our society is not that interested in keeping tabs on "people," says an INS official in Boston. "We operate on an honor system." The Iranian students who want to beat the system obviously...
Whether they are called beauty contests or cattle shows, they are silly, exhausting and largely pointless, and everyone knows it, especially the candidates who have to go along with the foolishness, or risk offending a group of voters, or let a rival get a step on them. Thus the presidential candidates have already suffered through a series of mock votes and straw polls of one kind or another. The latest was a "convention " thought up by an advertising man to steal a beat on the New Hampshire primary and hype interest among Republicans. Most of the "delegates" were chosen...