Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb From: robertsb@ttidcb.UUCP (Robin Roberts) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberals Message-ID: <182@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 12:25:19 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcb.182 Posted: Thu Oct 25 12:25:19 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Oct-84 06:09:41 EDT References: <569@loral.UUCP> Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 36 The original article by rfs, while it concluded in a manner equivalent to my thinking ( i.e. Reagan/Bush a superior ticket to Mondale/Ferraro ), made some statements that I doubt even Reagan would want to be associated with. While I think Carter's handling of the Tehran embassy situation pretty bad, I think that Reagan would not claim that he was instrumental in releasing the hostages. Reagan, in consultation with the Carter administration, made it clear to the Iranian government that it would be in their best interest to negotiate with the Carter administration before he took office as all bets would be off so to speak. The Iranian government believed this and arranged the hostages release. The Iranian government then deliberately slowed the process so that the hostages would be released moments after Reagan took office to embarrass Carter. Reagan then asked Carter to meet the hostages when they arrived because he rightly concluded that the Iranian's attempt to embarrass Carter should not be supported. More interesting to the election at hand is that when Lt. Col. Charles Beckwith ( the commander of the aborted raid to free the hostages ) arrived at the White House prior to the raid to brief them on it he found the President and his advisors in jeans and tennis togs. Even more surprising to him was the fact that Mondale paid no attention whatsoever and in fact spent the whole briefing fiddling enraptured with a pair of handcuffs he had found somewhere. Beckwith came away with a quite disappointed view of the professionalism of the While House staff and occupants. -- Robin D. Roberts (213) 450 9111 x 2916 TTI Zone V4 aka Buskirk the Valerian 3100 Ocean Park Blvd Death to Tyrants ! Santa Monica, CA 90405 UUCP: ..!ucbvax!ihnp4!vortex!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb or {cadovax,flick,philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex,wtux2}!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb or ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb@RAND-UNIX.ARPA