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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sought support for a two-part U.S. proposal in private meetings at the U.N. First, the Security Council would send U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to Tehran to seek the release of the hostages. Next, if the Waldheim mission did not succeed within a certain number of days, perhaps ten, Iran would be punished by a U.N. trade embargo, exempting only food, Pharmaceuticals and oil. But this approach also ran into opposition from the council's Third World members. They were willing to send Waldheim to Tehran, but they did not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: We Wept Together | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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