Word: answering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...final answer, according to government sources in Tehran, contained three principal demands: >That the U.S. make certain unspecified "modifications" in its pledge not to interfere in Iranian affairs, a pledge that President Carter and Muskie have both repeated on several occasions...
Despite the disappointment, the Administration found reason for some encouragement in the week's events. Along with Raja'i, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini himself seemed ready to resolve the dilemma. The Ayatullah personally approved Iran's answer before it was transmitted to the U.S. by Algerian intermediaries. Muskie speculated that Khomeini's involvement signaled a "new phase" in the negotiations. Another hopeful sign seemed to lie in the fact that the Iranians were no longer talking in terms of a possible phased release of their captives, a notion the U.S. has flatly rejected...
...American economy that Ronald Reagan into the in November. Perhaps the candidate's most effective campaign tactic was during the debate with President Carter when he looked at the television camera and asked the American people: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The answer was mostly no. Last year alone, the average real disposable income per capita fell an estimated...
...slip patients into unconsciousness, then declare them irreversibly braindamaged. If a recent television program in Britain were to be believed, Coma is not so far off the mark. The show, part of the BBC'S Panorama program, asked the question Transplants: Are the Donors Really Dead? The shocking answer: maybe...
...Jimmy Hoffa, somewhere. And Jimmy Durante, as the world knows. But could a U.S. President actually call himself Jimmy and get away with it? As it turned out, the answer was no. By calling himself an adoring diminutive, Mr. Carter preempted any possible public urge to do the same. In our own good time we might have come to call him Jimmy, just as we called others before him Ike, Jack and Jerry. But since Mr. Carter took Jimmy for himself, he left no room for any spontaneous objective expression of affection. What followed was disaffection. Two years into...