04/14/1981
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"I hope and pray that, no matter how stormy international affairs, the leaders of the world can look at what happened between these fliers and sailors and be duly inspired."
"In your courage, your tenacity, your know-how, you summed up all that is best in the American spirit; in a word, all that is heroic."
"This mission represents just one more example of cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union in search and rescue missions."
"Out of this tragic situation, the Governments of the United Kingdom and Ireland took a courageous and farsighted step in November of 1985 when they signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement."