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- <title>
- Mar. 30, 1992: October Surprise:The Sequel
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 30, 1992 Country's Big Boom
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
- OCTOBER SURPRISE: THE SEQUEL
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- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Before long the Bush campaign may be dealing with a new
- flock of October Surprise rumors. And this time at least two
- senior Republican Senators are pressing for a fresh probe that
- would go beyond the allegations that the Reagan-Bush campaign
- team delayed the release of Iranian-held American hostages back
- in 1980 for political gain. The new claims--unsubstantiated
- so far--say that starting in 1986, George Bush, then Vice
- President, secretly visited Damascus several times to discuss
- possible Syrian help in freeing hostages held in Lebanon. But
- until his 1988 presidential campaign got under way, according
- to the story, he stonewalled the Syrians, playing for prime
- campaign timing. Republicans want to get to the bottom of
- intelligence-community suspicions that the U.S. somehow blew a
- chance to free Terry Anderson and his fellow captives because
- Syria lost patience with the American game.
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