Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distribute nationwide some 80,000 wanted posters with photographs of Nathalie Menigon, 29, and Joelle Aubron, 27, two Action Directe militants. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua urged the nation to "cooperate with the police" in hunting down Besse's murderers, and he offered a 1 million franc ($152,000) reward for information leading to their capture...
...weapons and spare parts to Iran." He had weighed their advice and rejected it, said Reagan. "The responsibility for the decision and the operation is mine and mine alone . . . I was convinced then and I am convinced now that while the risks were great, so too was the potential reward...
...Mantle was a player in an era when they represented different ideals," Gould says, "Mantle put his heart and his life into baseball before the era of great material reward...
...continued our conversation. "But isn't it a bad precedent to reward a country so blatantly hostile to the United States?" I asked...
...seems clearly to have been a blunder that undermined U.S. credibility. It is hard to understand how the U.S. could have gained anything by strengthening Iran militarily. To permit arms sales that even appeared to be a payoff for the release of hostages was even worse, since seeming to reward terrorists is dangerous indeed. And by failing to foresee that its maneuvers could not be kept secret, and then being so plainly stuck for any effective way to explain those maneuvers publicly, the Administration has called into question its competence as well as its credibility...