Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their tab would have been about $30,000. Instead, they used an Air Force jet on which they could bring along spouses and assorted aides. The highflying cost: $244,013. When Congressman James Howard of New Jersey went to Ireland, he had the State Department arrange a dinner at Dublin's most expensive restaurant. The bill: $1,900. Most traveled was Congressman Robert Badham, a California Republican, who spent almost three months touring 24 countries on Air Force planes at a cost...
DIED. Richard Llewellyn, 76, British author whose bestselling lyrical novel about a heroic family of Welsh coal miners, How Green Was My Valley (1939), was made into an Oscar-winning film by Director John Ford; after a heart attack; in Dublin. His 27 other works include the popular 1943 novel None But the Lonely Heart...
...What was great was showing all these things you've heard about and seen pictures of, but haven't touched. I expected to be embarrassed, but I wasn't says Francis A. Evers '87, who is from Dublin, Ireland He adds. "In Ireland, you would never see that I thought I knew a lot I didn't know anything...
...Hamburg, Stuttgart and West Berlin-in an act of dissent they hoped would mark a turning point in their nation's history. On that same day in London, upwards of 200,000 Britons marched through the streets to a rally in Hyde Park. In Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, Paris, Dublin, Helsinki, Brussels and Madrid, as well as in dozens of towns and cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, the worldwide peace movement stretched its legs and shouted its challenges. But the major offensive was in West Germany, which will receive roughly one-fifth of the cruise missiles...
Sullivan said he suggested Dublin because it is a university city similar to Cambridge. He added that many Cantabridgians, including himself, are of Irish descent...