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...captives was underscored by Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i when he addressed a huge anti-American rally at the embassy. Tens of thousands of marchers shouted, "Death to American imperialism!" Raja'i delivered a fiery speech from a podium set up inside the embassy compound, proclaiming the hostage progress a victory for Iran. As viewed from Washington, it was encouraging that a government official was welcomed onto the militants' heavily guarded turf. Ever since the seizure of the embassy, U.S. officials monitoring the crisis had been worried that the final, perhaps insurmountable obstacle to a settlement...
Mandavu had tumbled into the moat around her compound one night and broken two bones of her lower right rear leg. When the leg did not heal, it seemed that Mandavu might have to be put out of her misery-even though she was in the twelfth month of a 21-month pregnancy. So zoo officials decided on an operation that had been performed only once before...
...their missiles that have multiple warheads and the number of warheads per missile. They could -and probably would-do so simply by accelerating programs that are now being held in check by SALT. This spurt in Soviet warheads would not only bury SALT, probably forever, but would also compound the "vulnerability" of American missiles. That dismal prospect has converted the Joint Chiefs of Staff, never SALT enthusiasts, into lobbyists for the ratification of the pending treaty...
...from a peak of 18.2% in January, February and March to 8.7% in August, the inflation, rate did a power turn in September and hurtled right back up into double digits. During the month, prices rose by 1%, which was the highest increase since June and translates into a compound annual inflation rate of 12.7%. The surge was led by food prices, which are climbing partly as a result of the damage wrought by the summer drought on crops and livestock herds. The cost of cars also jumped sharply, as did that of clothes and health care...
...more like his brother, a real, no-nonsense redneck? "The first Cracker President should have been a mixture of Jimmy and Billy," Blount reckons, "a cobbler of Billy's basic blackberries oozing up into and through Jimmy's cut-to-specifications crust . . . forming a nice-and-awful compound like life in Georgia...