Soviet nuclear reactor leaks radiation spreads It was not directed against Iran.” April 29, 1986, The Morning News In his remarks, Carter emphasized that “the rescue effort was a humanitarian mission. Embassy who have repeatedly threatened to kill the American hostages if “even the smallest military action were taken.” State Department officer Mark Johnson said nothing had been heard from the militants occupying the U.S. Iranian radio said the militants holding 50 Americans hostage in Tehran were meeting to discuss their response to the rescue mission…. The secretary said that, in the withdrawal, a helicopter and a transport plane collided, killing the eight servicemen and burning four others…. forces were withdrawn.ĭefense Secretary Harold Brown said the mission was called off when three of the eight rescue helicopters had difficulties…. military forces undertook a desperate raid to rescue American hostages in Tehran, Iran, but the mission collapsed in “equipment failures” on a remote desert airstrip far from its target, President Jimmy Carter said today.įront page of the Evening Journal from April 25, 1980.Ĭarter, on television, somberly told an awakening nation that there was no clash with Iranian forces and no evidence Iran knew of the mission until after it was over and U.S. STORY ABOUT VIETNAM WAR VETERAN: She thought her late husband's hat was gone forever, but Laurel police officers stepped up April 25, 1980, Evening Journal “But it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished – as far as America is concerned,” he said…. In a prepared speech that a White House spokesman billed as the first of the post-Vietnam era, the president said that “America can again regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam.” He told an audience of Tulane University students that he was saddened by the events in Indochina, but “they do not portend the end of the world nor the end of America’s leadership in the world.” President Ford declared last night that the Indochina war was over for the United States, and he called on Americans to “write a new agenda for the future.”
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