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New York Hosts Big Parade for Freed Hostages
New York City staged a ticker tape parade for freed American hostages with Gen Douglas MacArthur, Charles Lindbergh, and Pope John Paul I among the celebrated figures. Mayor Edward Koch vowed the event would be the city’s largest ever, drawing about two million people as 2,750 officers kept order along lower Manhattan.
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