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Like the countless other congressional missions to Indochina over the past decade, the most recent junket was a grueling, rapid plunge into the complexities of war and politics. There were mandatory visits with the heads of state, Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon and Lon Nol in beleaguered Phnom-Penh. Congressmen William Chappell and John Murtha donned fatigues and trooped off to a Cambodian army post. After a tour of a huge refugee center set up in Phnom-Penh's unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, a shaken Millicent Fenwick, Republican Representative from New Jersey, said: "I can't believe this...
Still, for all of the buildup, the trip was the kind of presidential junket that has become increasingly familiar, with Ford and his hosts sticking to agenda and signing communiques that had been worked out well in advance. Since there seemed no pressing need for Ford to make the trip, many people thought that he should have stayed home and worked on the domestic problems of inflation, recession and a restive populace anxious for a demonstration of presidential leadership. But Ford's aides advised him to try to build public support for his presidency by moving out into world...
...disaster -and has begun a major redistribution of wealth. Whether he is seen as hero or villain, the Shah cannot be ignored. Thus it is no accident that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (see story page 40) will spend no less than three days of his current diplomatic junket in Tehran...
...home, he stops off at Hawaii to visit the locales of From Here to Eternity after a 30-year absence. It is a bit of a self-indulgence, but at his best Jones writes too well to be begrudged the pleasures of his junket. ∎R.Z. Sheppard
When Rose Mary Woods met Richard Nixon in 1947, she was a secretary for a House committee studying the Marshall Plan and he was a freshman Congressman serving as a committee member. She noticed him because, after a committee junket to Europe, Nixon turned in the only expense account "titled, totaled, signed and all properly done...