Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Official confirmation of the report did not come until shortly after 12:33 p.m., when the first of two planes on the Tehran runway finally took off. The second, which actually bore the hostages, left five minutes later. Gary Sick, the National Security Council's chief Iran team member, relayed the word to Jimmy Carter as he rode toward Andrews Air Force Base for his flight home. James Brady, the new presidential press secretary, tapped Reagan on the shoulder as he entered the Capitol for a lunch with participants in the Inaugural ceremony and told him the news, relayed...
...shared equally by all, and said that he would not ignore the needs of the nation's poor and disadvantaged: "How can we love our country, and not love our countrymen? And loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?" Reagan did not attempt to reconcile his attack on government, which is the main agent in society for aiding the needy, with his concern for the poor. He gave no fresh...
Meanwhile, Navy Captain Gary Sick, the Iran expert on the National Security Council, kept two phone lines open; one was to Christopher in Algiers, the other to Carter. If there was no word of takeoff by noon, Carter had joked to the officer, "Captain Sick will be Lieut, (jg) Sick...
...many as 2,000 people-mainly mothers with young children-fled their frigid homes to sleep, eat, read, iron and pass the gloomy days on Army-issue cots. Elizabeth Martinez brought her two toddlers, ages 1 and 2, to an armory in Harlem. Said she: "They were getting sick with colds and fever all the time. My little one's hands were green and frozen from the cold. The water was frozen in the toilet bowl...
...Salvadorans are as cynical about the leftists' rallying cries as they are sick of the violence. "We know that the right has done most of the killing," says a young mechanic in a San Salvador barrio, "but the left is also responsible. It has become natural for us to distrust all people with guns...