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Koppel, for his part, behaved like a circus ringmaster determined to wring every ounce of ersatz drama out of the confrontation in the lion's cage. He pointedly delayed asking the predictable Donna Rice questions. It was all for naught: the answers were unrevealing. Hart persisted in describing Rice as "this attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced...
...organized a Field Operations Group that slipped four intelligence officers into Tehran, where they gathered vital information on the situation at the embassy. Later, FOG members rented trucks in Tehran for the rescue team that was to be flown into Iran by helicopters supplied by the Navy. All for naught: the mission was scrubbed in April 1980 because of a helicopter malfunction at the landing site, and one chopper crashed into a cargo plane...
...stay in character during moments that are otherwise completely implausible. He is closest to redemption during audience-involvement scenes which come as close as anything in the show to real dramatic moments; it is telling, however, that Lantry's attempt to raise the audience from the dead comes to naught...
...have seen fairly broad development of such cooperation in the energy field, including nuclear power, in chemistry, space research, cardiology and other fields. The benefit was mutual, and U.S. scientists are well aware of it. This cooperation has by now come to naught. We regret it, but let me assure you that we will survive because we have first-class science of our own and because the U.S. is far from having a monopoly on scientific ; and technological achievements...
...testimonials were for naught. In one of the stiffest penalties ever imposed in an insider trading case, a federal judge last week sentenced former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer, 65, to four years in prison (the maximum sentence is five years) and ordered him to pay a $5,000 fine. Co- Defendant Billy Bob Harris, a Dallas stockbroker, received the same sentence. Both men had pleaded guilty last March to charges that they had obstructed justice by lying to Securities and Exchange Commission officials who were investigating whether Thayer, then the chairman of LTV Corp. and a director...