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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worthwhile energy gizmos are by and large both simple and durable. Also they save enough energy so that the homeowner can recover, or amortize, the initial expenditure-which can amount to several hundred dollars-within a reasonable time. Herewith a sampler of five of the best and most cost-effective devices now available to individual homeowners...
...approached the representatives of ABC, CBS and NBC in Tehran with a tantalizing prospect: an interview with one of the hostages at the U.S. embassy. But there were catches. The networks would have to submit their questions in advance, broadcast the program live (to prevent any editing) in prime time, and allow Iranian students to make statements and ask questions of their...
...three networks found the conditions unacceptable. They continued bargaining, but only NBC was able to work out a deal: a taped interview in prime time using an Iranian camera crew and resident NBC Correspondents Fred Francis and George Lewis. A student spokesman who called herself Mary would make unedited opening and closing statements, but the newsmen did not have to clear their questions in advance. Said Tehran Bureau Chief Walter Millis: "That way we could control the interview, and if it really went off the wall, we could kill...
...trying hard not to feel positive about the captors, who are giving him his life. Everyone should understand that this is natural. One of the hostages on a Dutch train taken by Moluccan terrorists told me, 'You have to fight feelings of compassion for them all the time...
...from panic attacks and phobias connected with their relatively brief ordeal. Lillian Shevitz of B'nai B'rith says the Iranian crisis has triggered an overwhelming depression by bringing up painful memories of the Hanafi takeover. That pain, she says, "will be with us a long, long time...