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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motorcade that took the freed hostages to President Ronald Reagan's welcoming ceremony at the White House: "It's like a release to me. I couldn't go to Iran and fight, but I can come here and scream." Said Norma Rose of Silver Spring, Md.: "I felt the suffering. Now, I feel part of the miracle of their freedom. It's what we needed desperately to bring our country together again." Trying to build on this new sense of national unity, President Reagan urged the ex-hostages and, by implication, the nation not to dwell...
COLLEGE PARK. Md.--The faculty council of the University of Maryland voted last month to establish an independent coalition to organize the fight to unionize the faculty at the University...
...managed to get a mild complaint past the censors. Greeting relatives in South Carolina and Seattle, he noted that "they're not receiving much of my mail, and I'm certainly not receiving much of their mail." Said Joseph Hall to his wife Cherilyn in Silver Spring, Md.: "I'm still out here-500 days tomorrow since we've seen each other. But I can hold on if you can, kid." Referring to his long hair, Robert Engelmann told his family in Hurst, Texas: "You probably don't recognize me. After 400 or so days...
Wallace D. Miller Chestertown, Md...
...Lang: the books he was teaching were not approved for tenth-graders by the school system's curriculum experts. Some parents had complained as well. But Lang went right on using the books in his classes at Charles W. Woodward High School in the plush suburb of Rockville, Md. Lang even based exams on them. School Superintendent Edward Andrews took that as "insubordination and misconduct in office." Last October he asked that Lang be suspended without pay, a request that the Montgomery County School Board last week began to consider in private hearings...