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Both the President and Defense Secretary Harold Brown, who appeared haggard but resolutely amiable and relaxed when he held a large televised press briefing at the Pentagon, revealed an unsurprising but well-concealed fact: military training for a rescue had begun last November, shortly after militant students took over the embassy. Repeated claims by various security experts at the Pentagon, State Department and White House that a mission to free the hostages was virtually impossible were actually designed to lull the captors into believing that no such effort would be mounted. This attempt to protect the possibility of surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debacle in The Desert | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...sensitivity, turning in uniformly splendid, often unforgettable performances. Jeff Gerrard gives a delightfully detailed performance as Francis, from his nasal prissiness and grandmotherly peevishness to his awkward, chunky waddle. As his father, John Lagioia affects the stance of a fifth-grade toughie, his bluster sometimes dissolving into a haggard awareness. As Bunny, Laurel Cronin's intelligence, feeling--those drunken arias!--comic timing, and, finally, beauty are every bit as elephantine as her frame. There is fine support from Kaye Kingston's ghoulishly tacky Lucille and Ann Kerry's fetching Judith, but the find of the evening is John Cassisi...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Smashing the Sidewalk | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

...former Korean Central Intelligence Agency chief accused of murdering President Park Chung Hee last Oct. 26, the words were a defiant attempt to assume total responsibility for the assassination, for which six accomplices were also charged. His plea was in vain. Last week Kim, standing haggard and unshaven before a military tribunal in Seoul, was condemned to death with six others for his abortive coup attempt, which was described by one of the defendants as having been "like a rebellion in a medieval court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Acting Like Big Brother | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...passion for the opera. "The Saturday-afternoon broadcast of the Met was the most important event of the week," she recalls. Today Duffy keeps a stereo and stack of classical records in her office. "I also listen to country-and-western," she says, "since editing a Merle Haggard cover five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 17, 1979 | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Looking wan and haggard, he had a gash in his leg that he said was a bullet wound, and was dressed in the same gray business suit that he had been wearing on Aug. 2. Because Sindona was nearly incoherent from exhaustion, his physician immediately put him under sedation and whisked him to a $300-a-day room in fashionable Doctors Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sindona Returns | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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