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...Neuharth said the decision was "outrageous" and "based on politics and provincialism rather than fact or law." McKinney declined to comment. The trial is set to resume next month to determine how the paper should be returned, and Gannett plans to appeal its loss. Groused one New Mexican staffer: "We'll be in a state of limbo for years...
...very gentle custom," he says. When the women heard Thomas wistfully admit he had never been tucked in, they showed up at his office one afternoon with a blanket, a lullaby ("Rock-a-bye baby") and five daughterly pecks on the cheek. Maryland Student Affairs Staffer Patricia Orndorff recalls being tear-gassed and locked in her office during the more obstreperous 1960s. Of the latest fad, she says: "It's great that the students are doing nice things for a change...
Even Carter winced afterward over that statement, which was made in response to a question planted by a White House staffer. Returning to the Oval Office, the President said to a top aide: "Manageable was not a good choice of words, was it?" Indeed not, but the aide and Carter's other political strategists did not much care what excuse he used to leave the Rose Garden. For weeks, they had been telling him that both his standing with the public and his fund raising were suffering from his stay-at-home strategy. Then came the unsuccessful raid...
...been betrayed -and the hostages recklessly endangered -by President Carter. Demanded Bonnie Graves of Reston, Va., wife of Public Affairs Officer John Graves: "Eight deaths for what? I hope to God the Iranians are capable of restraint in this situation." In Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Ernest Cooke, mother of Embassy Staffer Donald Cooke, declared: "I can't believe they did such a thing. I understood, or thought I understood, that it was such a dangerous operation that they wouldn...
...their pique with the allies. Snapped a White House aide: "We wound up just as mad at the allies as at Iran." Complained a senior European expert at the State Department: "The allies have been slow, aggravating beyond belief and sometimes plain infuriating." And a White House staffer noted that "I don't think that we'll let the Europeans forget this...