World reaction is mixed as some support Carter, others fume
"When I heard the news for the first time, I failed to believe it." That was how Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in Paris on an official visit, reacted to word of the abortive American attempt to rescue the hostages in Tehran.
As reports gradually confirmed details of the U.S. operation, some governments responded with anger, some with sympathy. Syria's state-run Damascus Radio denounced the mission as "an aggressive act of piracy." India's Ministry of External Affairs said that it could not condone "military...
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