Word: washington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of the uproar, while the Shah calmly set up housekeeping at his new haven, U.S. officials in Washington were trying to determine how his abrupt departure from the U.S. would affect the plight of the hostages. An answer soon came from Tehran, and then another and another. First, in their 74th communique of the crisis, the militants holding the U.S. embassy bluntly declared that "to reveal the treacherous plots of the criminal United States and for its punishment, the hostage spies will be tried." The same hard line was reflected in a banner headline by the newspaper Islamic Republic...
...Washington, the Carter Administration seemed to despair of reconciling the conflicting messages from Tehran about the hostages. Said State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III: "There are signs that come and signs that go. Interpretation of them is subject to change almost on an hourly basis...
...demonstrate Americans' support for the hostages, Carter asked people across the country to fly U.S. flags on Tuesday, which he designated National Unity Day. The biggest was a 60-ft. by 90-ft. flag that hung on the George Washington Bridge between New York and New Jersey. Americans also mailed the hostages hundreds of thousands of Christmas cards, including one that was 10 ft. by 64 ft. and signed by 22,000 people in Panama City...
...Iranian crisis has produced the world's largest and most complex psychodrama. Every day in Washington President Carter is brought up to the minute on the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's psychological profile, a shifting and convoluted picture that is alien to White House experience. And the Ayatullah himself has already told the world that his actions are attuned to his perception of Carter's "guts...
...Harvard to Georgetown to the White House situation room, the scholars and strategists see emerging from the peculiarities of the Iranian situation a new and as yet unclear dimension to the world struggle. It derives partly from the fact that the U.S. has a military equal in the world. Washington can no longer fall back on an overwhelming power margin as the ultimate persuader...