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Article: Reagan's hostage crisis. (TWA hijacking in Lebanon)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 1, 1985
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As America's new hostage crisis entered its second week, the question for Washington was deceptively clear: How to respond to a terrorist outrage that already had cost one American life and threatened many others?
What was murky was the answer.
For Ronald Reagan, there was no easy way out. Every option carried as many risks as solutions--not only for the United States but also for Israel, its most important Mideast ally.
The crisis loomed as perhaps Reagan's most serious test yet--potentially a nightmarish rerun of the seizure of hostages in Iran that ultimately sabotaged Jimmy Carter's Presidency.
Adding to a sense of American ...