Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imminence of the rescue raid apparently was one of Carter's motivations for announcing what then looked like an ill-advised travel ban on Americans to Iran, including the families of the hostages. He also urged U.S. journalists to reduce their presence in Iran...
...They included Vice President Mondale, Brown, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, CIA Director Stansfield Turner and White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Not even Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief adviser on domestic policy, was told about the raid. In mid-April Carter summoned the team's leaders to the White House Situation Room and wished them well on their perilous mission...
...country secretly in advance. Said one Israeli military specialist: "You don't gain control over the embassy with 90 men, and you don't do it with eight helicopters." A respected Egyptian magazine called October said that 40 Iranians trained in the U.S. had taken part in the raid. The Administration had no comment to make on the report...
...more aircraft in the air, the Pentagon argues, the higher the risk of their being spotted and the greater the chance that some would be forced down. On this point the Pentagon was strongly supported by Shimon Peres, who was Israel's Minister of Defense during the successful Entebbe raid in 1976. Peres told TIME: "On an operation like this, one must be satisfied with the minimum of equipment. If you have too much, you blow the whole thing." Nor could the Nimitz dispatch more helicopters to help out when the three were disabled. There had been only eight...
...raid on the prison camp in North Viet Nam and the response to the seizure of the Mayaguez were far from models of success, but Nixon and Ford trumpeted the audacity of the missions and pride replaced doubt...