Word: mayaguez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter refuses to be honest with the Iranians, and honest to the American people, who remain ignorant not only of the details of this operation, but largely of America's complicity in the Shah's dictatorship. Guns can win votes--Gerald Ford's popularity skyrocketed after the Mayaguez incident, and John Kennedy's did also after the Bay of Pigs. But guns will not get the hostages back; they will not make America the friend of the nations that now invade our embassies; they will not make for a moral and honest foreign policy. And that is the real national...
Nixon's ultimatum on the sub base in Cuba had the desired effect without a shot being fired. Ford sent the Marines after the Mayaguez pirates...
...still armed with automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns, and in their four months of prison duty have received intensive weapons training. As one Carter aide put it: "The President is as frustrated as anyone, but he's not going to lose his temper and pull a Mayaguez." Banisadr's view on the military option was similar. He and Ghotbzadeh considered ordering a surprise seizure of the embassy two weeks ago, but ruled it out as being prohibitively risky...
...none of the lightning-flash finesse of Entebbe, none of the bloody ferocity of Mayaguez. Yet once again, however fleetingly, the frustration of dealing with the irrational acts of militants had been lifted by a single daring and dramatic deed. The cunning maneuver executed by Canadian diplomats in secreting six Americans in hostile Tehran for almost three months and then spiriting them to safety last week provided a heartening interlude in Washington's still unsuccessful struggle to free 50 hostages from their captors in chaotic Iran...