Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Khomeini men soon began to escort the American hostages out of the embassy. Several emerged, guarding an obviously frightened Oriental employee. Some young men and women ran toward the captive and tried to grab him and beat him, but the rescuers lowered their guns and ordered people to leave...
From room 117 on the hotel's second floor, they issued their demand for Dubs' life: the immediate release of three insurgent Muslim leaders jailed last month. Within minutes, police cordoned off the hotel and Afghan security forces took charge. Senior U.S. embassy diplomats at the scene were...
Frenzied attempts to negotiate with the terrorists through the keyhole of 117 proved inconclusive. Other U.S. officials attempting to establish contact with President Noor Mohammed Taraki or high-ranking Afghan officials were shunted off to a Deputy Foreign Minister.
In Israel there were some upbeat signs. As Dayan prepared to set off for the Camp David talks, Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman told TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer that he thought the Camp David negotiations would reach "a positive conclusion." Weizman added simply: "I believe that our future...
Still, Dayan provided some hints that the Israelis were preparing to be conciliatory on the Palestinian issue. The Foreign Minister touched off a stormy debate both among Knesset members and in the country as a whole by suggesting that the Palestine Liberation Organization had a rightful role to play in...