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...FEBRUARY. Reagan proposed an Executive Order. No longer, it declared, would harm to national security have to be "identifiable" for research to be kept secret It also said that research already published or declassified could be reclassified, eliminating time limits and weakening requirements for mandatory review. Congressional hearings on the subject were held in March, and according to Science, "witness after witness said the order would reverse a 30-year trend, begun in the Eisenhower Administration, to slow the massive growth of classified information in government files...
...group without the President convenes in the Cabinet Room to work on necessary notifications and statements. [I sat alone in my small office, listing everything I needed to do to prevent any harm to our hostages, to protect our agents in Tehran, to notify leaders of other nations in the area and to inform some American leaders and later the general public. First, we had to get our rescue team out of Iran, undetected if possible...
...presence in Iran until all our team was out of the country. As soon as it was safe, we wanted to anticipate the Iranians with our announcement, to prevent their exaggeration of the rescue mission into an all-out invasion-a version that might cause them to harm the hostages. We had a number of people in Tehran with trucks, radio equipment and other compromising materials, who had to be notified and given a chance to protect themselves...
...body. After steadily declining in a Florida hospital, Wilson was transferred to Montefiore in a final effort to save his life. There, doctors continued to remove the poison from his system by filtering his blood through charcoal. But it was too late; the paraquat had already done drastic harm to Wilson's lungs. His only hope: a lung transplant...
...nodded to them and walked into the cabin. Sadat followed. I explained the extremely serious consequences of his unilaterally breaking off the negotiations: that his action would harm the relationship between Egypt and the U.S.; that he would be violating his personal promise to me; that the onus for failure would be on him. He was adamant, but I was dead serious, and he knew it. I had never been more serious in my life. I repeated some of the arguments. He would be publicly repudiating some of his own commitments, damaging his reputation as the world's foremost peacemaker...