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Teng's nine-day visit will begin at 2 p.m. on Jan. 28, when a silver Boeing 707 carrying him and his party of 75, including scientists and journalists, touches down at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. Next morning, after a formal welcome that will include a 19-gun salute, Teng and Jimmy Carter will talk for an hour at the White House. There will be more talks between the two leaders on the following day, and then Teng will visit the House and Senate, where he will engage in some personal lobbying...
Harvard has appeared in the regatta five times since the Egyptian government first sponsored the event in 1970, and has won three times. This year the University of Washington crew captured first place in the nine-day event...
With the funeral over, Rome entered the nine-day mourning period, or novendiali, and the assembled Cardinals continued with daily meetings to prepare for the Oct. 14 conclave. This time most of the housekeeping details had a strong air of déjà vu about them. But there were some new problems...
Carter's latest foray-to Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria and Liberia-is a kind of footnote to the grueling nine-day, 18,500-mile global marathon he embarked upon in December. Planned by Brzezinski, that mammoth jaunt was supposed to include three of the four countries Carter will now visit. They were lopped off the itinerary when someone realized that the President-or any other mortal-would have trouble keeping up the pace of such a tour. Having promised a visit to Venezuela, Brazil and Nigeria, however, Carter was obviously obliged to follow up. Liberia was added more or less...
From the scabrous slums of New Delhi to the gilded grandeur of Versailles, Jimmy Carter absorbed a hefty chunk of the world in his grinding nine-day tour of seven countries. It was a trip compounded of princes and paupers, of weighty talk and lighthearted banter, of solemn ceremony and hilarious, sometimes embarrassing slipups. The down-to-earth couple from Plains greeted the New Year by joining the royal couple of Iran in the fairyland setting of the Shah's palace, amid a whirl of dancing, conviviality and caviar. Then last week it was back to the burdens...