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...national assembly), Banisadr's followers did poorly, and hard-line right-wingers of the Islamic Republican Party predominated. Common Market Foreign Ministers, meeting in Lisbon, condemned the hostage taking but delayed until May the imposition of reluctantly agreed-to economic sanctions against Iran. Carter's mood remained grim; he imposed a ban against U.S. travel to Iran and hinted that little remained for the U.S. except military action. Mrs. Barbara Timm, mother of Hostage Kevin Hermening, defied the travel ban, flew to Tehran and managed to see her son, but was not granted the audience she wanted with...
...walls where Andrew Jackson took coffee, and he has brushed by the shadowy parlor where Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies in 1861. Abraham Lincoln used to wander across to Blair House during the Civil War, a troubled giant who came for relief from the grim story of war through friends and humor...
...despite the many problems, existence was not all grim. The luckless lined up for bread and coffee at Newman's garage in Dixon, and yet the truth of many a young man's mood was as remembered by Lawrence Grove, who hustled popcorn at the park where Reagan was a lifeguard. Recalls Grove: "We really had little sense of the Depression. We always had a good time." Such a time, in Dixon, usually meant a day at the park, socializing at Fluf's Confectionary, an 8? ice cream cone at the Prince Ice Cream Castle, roller skating...
...President Leonid Brezhnev met with Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek in Moscow. While expressing confidence that the Polish party could solve the country's internal difficulties, the two leaders assailed "attempts of imperialist and other reactionary circles" to undermine socialist Poland. For the restive militants, it was a grim reminder of the limits of Soviet tolerance...
...Elephant Man. David Lynch transforms the story of John Merrick-the noble ogre of Victorian England-into a grim, lovely fairy tale. John Hurt inhabits Merrick with grace and spirit in the year's sweetest movie...