Word: uncertainity
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...Release of the hostages. At some specific time after the U.N. commission's creation is announced, the hostages will be set free, although exactly who would transport them out of Iran was uncertain...
...Banisadr's most difficult tasks since his election has been to trim the militants' power. In a couple of key showdowns with them, he has won the backing of the Revolutionary Council and has even been named this ruling body's chairman. But it remained uncertain whether he could persuade-or force-the militants to hand over their hostages...
...renaissance is being felt most acutely by NBC. That network was plagued by uncertain corporate and news leadership through most of the 1970s, and only last year began to get its administrative house in order. Facing mandatory retirement at CBS, Richard Salant, 65, signed on as vice chairman for news at NBC, which has no set retirement age. In August he recruited Bill Small, a hard-driving former CBS Washington bureau chief, to be president of NBC'S news division. Says Small: "We are going to be hiring producers, correspondents, whatever, to increase our bench strength...
...future of our union is very uncertain--I think there will be a lot of turmoil for the next few years," he added...
Taylor gradually reduced the size of his embassy staff. From a total of 20, it was dropped to 11 and finally to 4. Taylor chose last Monday, in the uncertain aftermath of Iran's presidential election, to make his move. The six Americans nervously but successfully showed their false papers to Iranian airport officials and boarded regularly scheduled flights to Frankfurt. Then they went into two days of rest and debriefing at a U.S. Air Force hospital near Wiesbaden in West Germany, before flying to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. There they were reunited with their relatives. Then...