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The prolonged crisis of 1979-1981, when 53 Americans were held hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, ended the State Department leadership in counterterrorism.
The screenplay was never filmed, so far as I know, but came out in book form under the title Viva Sandino or, in a later edition, El Asalto . There you could already see the elements that make up News of a Kidnapping : a social background of violence and injustice; the United States hovering in the distance; a hostage situation.
In our interviews, some military officers repeatedly invoked the analogy of Desert One and the failed 1980 hostage rescue mission in Iran.
Brock is on track to make partner when a homeless man carrying a gun takes him hostage in the firm's plush conference room.
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."