Word: wanteds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with memories of the Iran arms-for-hostages swaps still fresh, American officials too have been careful to reject suggestions that the two nations are conducting anything like hostage negotiations. "You want to do things that are justifiable on their own merits and defensible in terms of U.S. interests," said a State Department official. "And if Iran wants to take it as a signal, fine...
Iran's Rafsanjani is believed by Washington to be anxious to dispose of the hostage issue quickly so he can open his war-ravaged country to the outside world. But powerful hard-liners still want to block any contact with the West. Former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami, one of the most intransigent of the revolutionary mullahs, was excluded from Rafsanjani's government earlier this year. He can still get mobs out into the streets, however, as he proved by leading large anti-American demonstrations in Tehran earlier this month to mark the tenth anniversary of the seizure...
...Giuliani might have been able to capitalize on his reputation as one of the nation's toughest lawmen. When the candidates squared off in televised debates, Dinkins complained that Giuliani was behaving more like a prosecutor than a mayor. Giuliani fired back, "I think the people of this town want a mayor who has nothing to fear from a prosecutor...
...this Byzantine maneuvering was but a prelude to Wilder's breakthrough: his nomination for Lieutenant Governor in 1985. Virtually no leading white politicians wanted Wilder on the ticket; the issue was whether they would risk his wrath to keep him off. Wilder cemented a successful alliance with Baliles, the underdog for the gubernatorial nomination, because he was in the weakest position to resist a black running mate. "There were people in the Baliles campaign," Wilder recalled afterward, "who didn't want me on the ticket either...
...China inevitably will become a major economic power, and its 1 billion people will provide a huge market for the advanced industrial countries. Do we want to rule ourselves out and leave that potential market to the Japanese and the Europeans...