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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19OCTOBER SURPRISE: THE SEQUEL
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- 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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