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American Elections: Wicked Game

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🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

President George H.W. Bush tries to shore up his Republican coalition and offer the American people a clear picture of what a second Bush term will look like. Meanwhile, down South, a young saxophone-playing Democratic governor from Arkansas and an Independent Texas businessman will make a second term for Bush seem like an impossibility.

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0:00.0	Two Americans, William Gaylord and Paul Chaparoni, sit in a cell in Iran's infamous
0:17.5	Caza prison.
0:18.5	They've been locked away for 46 days.
0:21.8	Originally constructed in 1790 as a palace, Hazar prison was rebuilt and repurposed in
0:27.0	the late 1920s.
0:28.8	For 50 years, it has stood as an impenetrable fortress used by the Pollyvy Shahs who've
0:33.6	ruled Iran for most of the 20th century to house political prisoners.
0:37.9	Gaylord and Chaparoni have no connection to the United States government or politics, but
0:42.3	they're being used as bargaining chips in a few between Iran and the business they work
0:46.2	for.
0:47.2	EDS, electronic data systems, a Texas-based information technology company.
0:52.5	Something's going on outside, Bill.
0:55.2	Something's always going on outside.
0:56.4	Can you make out what they're yelling?
0:58.3	I don't know.
0:59.3	Death to the Shah or another one of their greatest hits.
1:01.6	No, this seems different.
1:03.6	As the two Americans sit in their prison cell, the streets outside fill with Iranian revolutionaries.
1:09.0	The Shah has fled and his pro-Western secular Iranian government is crumbling.
1:14.1	The Ayatollah Khameini has returned to Iran after 15 years in exile to install his conservative
1:19.7	Theocratic regime.
1:21.6	Followers of the Ayatollah have spent the last several nights marching on police stations,
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