Nation: Two Steps Forward . . .

But always one step back, as a U.N. commission heads for Iran

We are not privy to news and consequently are unaware of what efforts, if any, are being exerted on our behalf. There's no news about our status.

So wrote William Keough Jr., one of the 50 Americans being held hostage in Iran, in a letter to his family in Waltham, Mass. It is one of the cruel and bizarre aspects of the hostages' long ordeal that they probably have no notion of how the search for a means to free them has dominated...

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