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...crisis summit" but as a session aimed at nurturing global economic recovery. From Washington's point of view, the London meeting might have been dubbed the Re-Election Summit. It capped a ten-day presidential tour that began with Reagan's nostalgic visit to ancestral soil in Ireland and continued with a highly photogenic appearance on the beaches of Normandy for the 40th anniversary of the D-day landings (see following story...
...sort of sentimental journey most tourists can only dream of: the successful American's triumphal visit to the land from which obscure forebears set out for the New World generations ago. And so Ronald Reagan's four-day visit to Ireland was carefully planned as a kind of televised wish fulfillment, especially on Sunday in the village of Bally-poreen (pop. 350). There the President was scheduled to pray in the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, look up in the baptismal book the record of Great-Grandfather Michael's baptism on Sept...
...Presidents Kennedy and Nixon when they visited the Old Sod, Reagan had to contend with demonstrators who also had an acute sense of what would play on American TV. On Saturday, shortly before Reagan received an honorary doctor of laws degree at University College of the National University of Ireland, 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters attended a rival "deconferring ceremony" at which Marian Robinson, a visiting American professor who happens to be a cousin of Nancy Reagan's, read a citation denouncing the President's nuclear arms policies; three holders of honorary doctorates returned their degrees...
...scenes were a kind of visual metaphor for Reagan's foreign policy these days: placidity and fellowship front and center, tension and turmoil in the background. The trip to Ireland opened a ten-day tour filled with the kind of ceremony-visits to castles, palaces and battlefields-at which the President excels...
Politicians have often sought votes with good-will trips to such places as Ireland, Italy and Israel, and they rarely hesitate to meddle in foreign affairs for political purposes. (A fortnight ago, for example, Senator Edward Kennedy used his own political funds to bring a Miskito Indian mother from Nicaragua to Washington to testify about the death of her child at the hands of the CIA-backed contra rebels.) But it is unusual and inappropriate for political candidates to malign the U.S. on foreign soil. Either of Jackson's opponents would likely have been pilloried for such...