Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nonprofessional jobs, and the situation is not going to get any better until the 1980s." College enrollments, already dropping as a result of the end of the baby boom, may well begin to fall even faster as students become aware that a college degree is no longer an automatic passport to a good...
...base noncommissioned-officers' club for a glass of beer, American citizens quickly protested that they were being treated like prisoners. "They won't let me out!" one American complained by telephone to a stateside relative. Said Jacques Carbonel, waving a red official U.S. passport at Aikman: "If I don't show up at my job in Washington on Monday, my boss simply won't believe that I have been held here." Joseph O'Neill, a construction superintendent with a Vietnamese wife and two children, said in disgust: "I helped liberate this place during...
...young man entered West Germany's modern four-story embassy in Stockholm one morning last week and politely asked the receptionist where he could obtain a new passport. The male receptionist turned to a telephone-and turned back to find he was facing a gun. Their access secured, five other terrorists, one a woman, entered the building. Armed with submachine guns, they raced to the top floors and barricaded themselves, along with twelve hostages, including Ambassador Dietrich Stoecker, 59, and his military attaché, Lieut. Colonel Andreas Baron von Mirbach...
This paratrooper readily admitted that he "can live with the Communists." For those who feel that they cannot, the talk last week was mainly of possible means of escape. The chances are not good, except for the very rich who can pay enough of a bribe for a passport (current price: as high...
Besides the passport, Locke has Robertson's engagement book and his plane ticket with a Munich airport locker number scrawled on its face...