Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing can match the timing that Gauger demonstrated last week: she was the only journalist inside the U.S. embassy in Islamabad when it was attacked and burned by a Pakistani mob. Gauger's first-person account of the siege and her subsequent rescue is a substantial part of this week's cover story...
Gauger had gone to the embassy to seek information concerning a Voice of America radio report about last week's seizure of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. When an official she sought turned out to be away from his office, she headed for the embassy commissary, one of few places in the sternly Islamic city where alcohol is served. "I thought I might have lunch and a beer and try to catch him before I left for my next appointment," she says. "You know the rest. It could happen to anyone who likes a beer...
...rancorous quarrel between the U.S. and Iran darkened and expanded last week into an ever more perilous confrontation...
...hostage will be extremely grave." President Carter backed up that warning by ordering the 80,000-ton carrier Kitty Hawk and five escorting warships to speed from Subic Bay in the Philippines to reinforce the carrier Midway arid twelve other ships already in the Persian Gulf area. Until last week, the White House had emphatically ruled out all talk of using military force against Iran; now it just as emphatically warned that while it was seeking a peaceful settlement it had "other remedies available...
...beyond personal pique: Carter and his aides took the speech as a sign that the Ayatullah had misread U.S. restraint as an indication that the nation was afraid to take any action. They agreed that he must be disabused of that notion. The President, who was spending Thanksgiving week at Camp David, returned immediately to the White House by helicopter for a late-afternoon meeting with the Special Coordination Committee, which has been meeting twice a day to plan strategy...