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...impoundment of 60 United States foreign service officers by followers of Ayatollah Khomeini is a clear violation of the territorial sanctity of foreign missions, a fundamental international understanding. There is no question that all diplomatic efforts should be made to protect American lives with peaceful means. But if all diplomatic efforts fail and if American lives are in immediate danger, the Carter Administration should not rule out the use of a tactical force specifically ordered to save these lives. Although a state is obliged to respect the territorial rights of another, it has a greater duty to defend the lives...
...CONDEMN Ayatollah Khomeini's support of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran. But we believe the United States should be prudent in its response to the steadily worsening situation; it should put saving the 60 hostages' lives before political retaliation. Military intervention of any kind should be rejected as an impractical option because it is doubtful it would save lives. Instead, the United States should work within the international community through diplomatic channels to secure the release of the hostages. Carter and the State Department should work at persuading Syria, Pakistan and other pro-Khomeini nations to convince...
Boston Mayor Kevin H. White grabbed voters all across the city yesterday en route to trouncing three-time challenger State Sen. Joseph F. Timilty and securing his fourth term in City Hall...
Brune, who won the preliminary election, got a lot of political mileage out of the city's allegedly lower tax rate, which the state has not approved despite an annouced reduction by August
...William Green (D) Columbus, Ohio Thomas Moody (R) Salt Lake City, Utah Ted L. Wilson (D) Gary, Ind. Richard G. Hatcher (D) San Francisco, Calif. Dianne Feinstein (D) ahead Houston, Tex. James McConn run-off Louis Macey Toledo, Ohio Douglass DeGood (D) Indianapolis, Ind. William Hudnut (R) Governor State Minneapolis, Minn Donald Fraser (D) Kentucky John Y. Brown (D) New Haven, Conn. Biagio DiLieto (D) Mississippi William Winter...