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In our interviews, some military officers repeatedly invoked the analogy of Desert One and the failed 1980 hostage rescue mission in Iran.
Oldman, barking out the hysterical howls that serve as lingua franca for all cinema terrorists, calls the White House and tells Vice President Kathryn Bennett (Glenn Close) that he'll kill one hostage every half hour until Radek is released.
The movie's zigs and zags are too entertaining to divulge, but it's permissible to say that Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, as a Miami-based government marshal, meet cute: She gets shut up with him in the trunk of a getaway car and is hostage to his chatter about movies, a life of crime, and how he wishes he had met her in a bar so he could have picked her up.
Clinton criticized the military bill for including budget gimmicks and pork-barrel projects but said that he could not "allow our national security needs to be held hostage by this budget battle."
It came in April 1980 during the Iranian hostage crisis, when Navy helicopters with Marine pilots flew to a site known as Desert One, some 200 miles southeast of Tehran, to rendezvous with Air Force planes carrying Delta Force commandos and fresh fuel.