Word: frees
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Regardless of the understandable elation in Canada and the U.S., the fight to free the hostages remains one of the Carter Administration's most nettlesome difficulties. So far, the U.S. has been deliberately delaying the imposition of its planned economic sanctions against Iran in the hope that its new President, Abolhassan Banisadr, may yet help resolve the hostage problem. But as the hostages start their fourth month of captivity, there is no real cause for optimism...
...need a foreign policy which is tied to our national security interests, which are tied to intelligent interests for the United States, that are tied to energy interests, which are tied to a sound economy here in the United States and an energy policy that is going to free us from heavy dependence to the Persian Gulf countries and to OPEC, which is strongly, which has the strength and the support of the American people, and which is predictable and certain, which has a down side to it in terms of disincentives to the Soviet Union for actions which...
...whirred, a young man triumphantly burned what looked like a draft card. "Hell no, we won't go!" chanted the students who surrounded him on Sproul Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley. The plaza has been the site of bitter student protests dating back to the Free Speech Movement of 1964. This time, about 1,000 young men and women were there to demonstrate against Jimmy Carter's call to resume draft registration...
...popular committee that has come to free you from a dictatorial regime, and here are your arms." This call to revolt was issued by 30 armed men who sneaked across the Algerian border early last week and made their way to the phosphate mining town of Gafsa (pop. 30,000) in central Tunisia. Joined there by 20 confederates, the invaders tried to seize Gafsa's civil and military installations. The local populace refused to join the insurrection, but it took Tunisian troops 20 hours to subdue the commandos. The battle left 41 men dead and more than 100 wounded...
...gesture is well meant, but network anchormen don't usually, and shouldn't, inject patriotic reminders into news coverage. In fact, when John Connally argued in a 1977 speech in Houston that the press has a duty to express "a candid bias" for the preservation of the free enterprise system, Cronkite sharply set him straight: "It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts." That's still good doctrine. Cronkite concedes that his new sign-off, which he thought...