The day after there was almost nothing about us in the papers. All of the press had been outside the American embassy where the hard-core Islamists had their demonstration. At that time, I knew almost nothing about them. I hadn’t even realized they were arranging their own demonstration. They got all the attention, even though they had only about one hundred people and we had six thousand. There was just a short article about us in one paper, y’know. In one way I thought the people who’d gone to the embassy had more of an impact than we did. And that gave them more credibility, because their
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