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Official confirmation of the report did not come until shortly after 12:33 p.m., when the first of two planes on the Tehran runway finally took off. The second, which actually bore the hostages, left five minutes later. Gary Sick, the National Security Council's chief Iran team member, relayed the word to Jimmy Carter as he rode toward Andrews Air Force Base for his flight home. James Brady, the new presidential press secretary, tapped Reagan on the shoulder as he entered the Capitol for a lunch with participants in the Inaugural ceremony and told him the news, relayed...
DIED. Fawn McKay Brodie, 65, historian whose 1974 psychobiography Thomas Jefferson: an Intimate History alleged that the nation's third President had a 38-year love affair with a black slave woman named Sally Hemings, who bore him five children; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...decades Vuitton produced only items priced beyond the means of the masses. Beginning in the 1960s, however, the company broadened its offerings to include less expensive backpacks, handbags, wallets, umbrellas, key cases and even dog leashes. All bore the distinctive LV symbol...
...flow of words. Talking at almost every opportunity and most times on the record, Carter too often contradicted himself, and then had to explain what he really meant. Language ultimately was cheapened and meaning diminished. The Carter White House echoed with so much talk that it finally became a bore. Presidential restraint of tongue might restore some credibility to talk and heighten the impact when the right moments come for the Chief Executive of the nation to sound off to the people...
...concerto wafted from a loudspeaker. They had come to Gdansk to honor the memory of 45 workers killed by police and army bullets ten years before in riots along the Baltic coast. At long last a monument had been built: three slender trunks of steel crowned by crosses that bore dark anchors, like stylized Christ figures. To some, the 138-ft.-high sculpture outside the main gate of the Lenin Shipyard symbolized the futile workers' uprisings against Poland's governments in 1956, 1970 and 1976. To others, it recalled specifically the three workers gunned down there early...