Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pennsylvania-born Stacks, who lives in the Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Md., majored in political science at Yale ('64) and got his first journalistic exposure to national politics as a general assignment reporter for the Washington Star. By the 1968 campaign he had joined TIME, for which he...
The President had joined last week with about 2,000 others in an ecumenical prayer service for 62 American hostages held under threat of death at the captured U.S. embassy compound in Tehran. At his right sat Penny Laingen, wife of L. Bruce Laingen, the imprisoned chargé d'affaires in...
As for the promise to release some of the hostages, the Iranians dawdled through the weekend and by early Monday Iran time, nearly 40 hours after the first announcement, not a single American had been freed. Instead, the students staged a circus act in the embassy compound, trotting out three...
If the crisis ends badly and any of the hostages are harmed, however, the U.S. will face a far more serious problem. Though the Administration has ruled out military intervention during the current impasse (there were naval exercises in the Persian Gulf last week, however), it might change its mind...
(5 of 11) to take some specific action of support, the House voted to cut off all military and economic aid to Iran, including $20 million in U.S. funds allocated through the U.N. Development Program. The tally: 379 to 0.