Word: mid-may
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...action, Carter embarked on a very risky two-track course. Publicly, he pressured the Western European nations to join the U.S. in breaking diplomatic ties with Iran and in cutting off most trade, hinting none too subtly that he would otherwise take some kind of unspecified military action by mid-May. Most privately, Carter signaled his military commanders on April 11 to get the team ready to go. The public talk about a May deadline was designed in part to make a more immediate rescue strike seem most unlikely. Says a top State Department official: "To the extent that people...
Carter said he had sent a message to the leaders of Europe setting what he called "a specific date" by which the U.S. "would expect this common effort to be successful." It turned out later that he was really talking about mid-May. Carter also implied that the U.S. would resort to military action if need...
...travel bureaus and clogged telephone lines to get tickets for perhaps the best airline bargain ever: World Airways' $69.99 flights from the East to West coast, and from Los Angeles to Hawaii. The tiny airline (1979 revenues: $166 million), in a monthlong promotion offer from mid-April to mid-May, is undercutting existing rates across the continent by as much...
...School will publish the pilot issue of a newsletter in mid-May, Linda Beyer, publications coordinator at the Law School said yesterday...
...Charlie Altekruse don't like to think about the possibility of an Olympic boycott. The Crimson oarsmen are among 32 selected last December by Harry Parker, coach of the Olympic squad, to be on a pre-Olympic team. The final 14 man team will be chosen by Parker in mid-May...