Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monde, the treaty was a "turning point in the history of modern Europe." Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, called it an accomplishment of "farsighted boldness." Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the French publisher-politician, saw the pact as a "passport to the East, a preface to a policy of industrial penetration of the East by the West." German Historian Karl Kaiser said that it constitutes the first phase of a new security system in Europe...
...complete control over family matters, even after his death. There is no divorce (though the Chamber of Deputies may well approve a bill making it legal some time this fall), no legal abortion, and a wife with children must have her husband's permission to get a passport. Last February in Rome, the small, left-of-center Republican Party organized a series of eight weekly seminars on the liberation of women. Groups are now operating in Turin, Milan, Genoa and Bologna. In November, the first of a series of public rallies will be held in Rome to discuss...
Vacationers by the tens of thousands poured across the countryside last week toward mountains, lakes, trout streams and ocean beaches. Nearly as many, brandishing credit card and camera, were climbing aboard 747 jumbo jets and chartered 707s for London, Rome, Madrid or Tokyo. In Washington, the U.S. Passport Office has accumulated a backlog of 30,000 new applications. The New Orleans passport director has a bleeding ulcer...
...exile, embarked upon in outrage at Franco's rule in Spain, and reflects Casals' anger at American support of that regime. His sense of political morality sizzles from the pages in his denunciations of the Spanish government. When asked why he does not give up his Spanish passport, Casals retorts: "Why should I give it up? Let Franco give up his. And then I shall return...
...strike also affected the lives of millions of individuals. Poet W.H. Auden fretted about his passport, which might not reach him in time for a scheduled April 1 departure for Israel. A young divorcee about to leave on vacation was upset because the strike prevented her child-support payment from reaching her on time. To others, the strike brought welcome relief from business pressures. "It's wonderful not to receive any mail," said an editor employed by a New York publishing firm. "For the first time in years, I've been able to clear my desk." Critic Dwight Macdonald lamented...