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That scandal, you may remember, featured the elder Bush secretly flying not to Houston but to Paris in October 1980 to cut a deal with the Iranian mullahs so that the American hostages would not be released before Election Day--thus, according to the theory, ensuring Ronald Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter.
The Times of India firmly opposed making a deal with the hijackers: "[N]ot just the safety of 160 hostages but the future vulnerability of this country to terrorism" ride on the government's negotiating strategy.
Although the demands were not met, the 89 hostages taken at the embassy were released unharmed, and the gunmen were allowed to escape.
The daimyo were required to spend alternate years in Edo, while their families lived there all the time, as hostages of sorts.
"Jimmy Carter; return of hostages from Iran."