Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third floor, covering their retreat with tear gas. Radio contact was established with other areas of the embassy community. We were Dixie 14. Dixie 20 was Ambassador Arthur Hummel, who was at home. "I know you're uncomfortable in there, but just hold on and take it easy," Hummel said. He told us the Pakistani army was just a few minutes away...
...more people came up from the vault, we gathered in knots for the move across the roof to a second ladder that went to the ground. The Marines led us over the side. "I'm sorry we have to take you through a little smoke here," one of them said to me. This part of the building was blazing from both sides, and smoke hung over everything. I kept thinking that the roof had to collapse soon-any minute...
...bathrooms, then provide what Montagne called "a substantial meal" of bread, butter and cheese. All except the smokers, who were allowed a few moments for cigarettes, would then be tied up again until the next meal. The precious extra moments of unrestricted movement caused a few nonsmokers to take up cigarettes for a while, though with mixed results. Said Smoker Montagne: "They coughed and everything, and finally it got to be better to be tied up than to try to smoke...
...speeches, Bush takes standard conservative positions. He wants to limit federal spending and to reduce regulations, while cutting taxes in ways to increase investment. He favors decontrol of energy prices and wants a windfall profits tax on the oil companies with a "plow-back" provision to encourage research and exploration. In foreign affairs, Bush says he would take strong stands against what he calls the Soviet Union's "very aggressive quest for hegemony...
Bush has employed his year of grassroots campaigning to take supporters in Iowa from the camps of Reagan and Connally. He actually seems to enjoy the grind, maintaining a good humor, bantering easily with aides and joking about some of the absurdities in politics. Describing his carefully balanced position on abortion (he is against a constitutional amendment to prohibit it but also opposes spending federal money on it), he mockingly calls the stance "heroic...