Playbill
September, 1988
Who can forget the great hostage crisis of 1979/80, when the mania of revolution convulsed Tehran and the U.S. embassy staff became the prisoners of His Repugnance, the ayatollah? Former President Jimmy Carter won't forget it; his Administration's failure to rescue fellow Americans cost him a second term and allowed Ronald Reagan to start his first term on a triumphant note when it was announced, minutes after he'd taken the oath of office, that the hostages were free at last. How conveenient, a...
