Word: junketeering
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When the Air Force reported the plane lost, the Russians piously joined in the search. For ten days, until Khrushchev returned from a junket to Austria, they remained silent about the attack. Then they announced that they had shot the plane down over Soviet waters near the Kola Peninsula. Olmstead and McKone, the only survivors, were in prison. They would, cried Nikita, be tried as spies, "under the full rigor of Soviet law." Such vehemence seemed only natural after the loud propaganda that followed the capture of U-2 Pilot Powers and Khrushchev's intransigence in Paris...
...such a situation Paz Estenssoro could not afford to give the impression of rejecting the Russian smelter offer out of hand. Nor did the U.S. expect him to. But as he prepped his officials for next month's mission, high officials leaked that the junket was aimed at ending the "myth of Russian help" as much as anything else...
...whipped up the local Reds to bloody excesses in the 1958 uprisings. Egypt's Nasser clearly prefers Russians just now, but the Chinese still maintain a large embassy in Cairo and 30 "newspapermen." In 1958 the crown prince of little Yemen came back from the standard junket to Peking with a $16 million long-term loan for construction of a textile plant and a modern highway over the mountains to the desert interior. In the city of Taiz, Red China is building a three-story legation, which will be the biggest diplomatic structure in town...
...homes jokingly plastered the team's lockers with pictures of air crashes. Even so, many an envious rooter turned out to see the 35 members of the team, four coaches, the manager, doctor and a sportswriter from the San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune off on the big junket...
...longest papal junket (more than 100 miles round trip) since Pius IX's horsecarriage tour of the Roman countryside in 1857, Pope John XXIII, 79, climbed into the armchair seat of his Chrysler, donated by U.S. Catholics, at 6:15 a.m. one morning last week. The purpose of the trip: a sentimental journey to the seminary at Roccantica where 56 years ago he said the second mass of his career. After admiring the olive-groved Sabine Hills through the plexiglas top of his speeding (frequently at more than 60 miles per hour) limousine, the Pope was greeted by townspeople...