1.   But increasingly Waite had become involved in his attempts to rescue hostages held in the Middle East.

2.   Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.

3.   Carter ordered the Pentagon to prepare a contingency plan for military action to rescue the hostages.

4.   Elite troops stormed the building and rescued the hostages.

5.   He felt that rescuing the hostages was a moral imperative.

6.   And when a limited military attempt to rescue the hostages failed, Carter was deeply wounded politically.

7.   A desperate, go-for-broke attempt at rescuing the hostages rising out of impatience could prove a disaster.

8.   Against Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran the U.S. tried to rescue hostages by sending in a stale chocolate cake.

9.   Compounding the tragedy, the Germans announced that the hostages had been rescued, a report that was relayed around the world before it was superseded by the truth.

10.   Five months later, after an effort to rescue the hostages failed, Carter resumed campaigning, but lost reelection.