Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went dutifully through his official tour, from laying a wreath at the tomb of Pakistan's founder, Ali Jinnah, to trudging through a large textile plant, where he smiled with satisfaction on discovering that a white-haired employee earned 84? a day. At week's end Chou flew up to Rawalpindi and was warmly greeted by handsome Ayub Khan, wearing a jaunty astrakhan hat. Here the street banners read DOWN WITH INDIAN IMPERIALISM IN KASHMIR, but if they were intended to prod Chou into a public expression of support against India, they failed. The two leaders toasted each...
...Cabinet by offering him the presidency of the Supreme Court, the deal fell through. As chief of the opposition, Aubame insisted on also keeping his National Assembly seat. Last month, with the defeat of a bill aimed at eliminating one of Aubame's two jobs, Mba flew into a rage and tried to force his rival out. He dissolved Parliament, called for new elections, and reduced the number of seats from 60 to 47. This "economy measure" would have given Mba a one-party state, but he reckoned without his 400-man army...
After eight days on the scene in Panama, a five-nation OAS investigation team (Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay) flew back to Washington last week, unwilling to side either with Panama or the U.S. on the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots. Officially the investigators kept a diplomatic silence pending a formal report to the OAS Council. Unofficially they said they found no real proof of U.S. charges that Castroites had instigated the first riots - though pictures of later fighting did show Communist troublemakers in the forefront. The diplomats also concluded that U.S. troops along the Canal Zone border were...
...U.C.L.A. both Presidents donned cap and gown to receive honorary doctor of laws degrees. Later they flew to Palm Springs, called on Dwight Eisenhower (it was, said Ike, "just an evening with old friends") and settled down to private talks. The agenda inevitably included disarmament, the lagging Alliance for Progress, what to do about Panama and Cuba, but no treaties were signed, no formal decisions taken. Now that the Chamizal dispute on the Rio Grande has been settled, Mexico and the U.S. have few major outstanding disagreements. There is one issue - a minor one as international flaps go - that continues...
...comedian Dick Gregory, who flew to Boston last night from Arkansas, where he had earlier in the day been sentenced and fined for civil rights participation, who brought emotion to a fever pitch. Gregory strode into the auditorium, suitcase in hand, an hour and and a half after the rally began...