Word: passport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solve development dilemmas. "I wonder if these development officials are really devoted," he says. "They come to developing countries and stay at the best hotel, are waited on, and chauffeured around. They live like little princes." He adds, "How can these people understand the poor when they have a passport for exit...
...night, a well-organized band of machine-gun-toting thugs pulled off the week's most daring escapade. Disguised as Lebanese police, they drove unchallenged onto the campus of Beirut University College, gathered four professors, three of them Americans and the other an Indian-born man carrying a U.S. passport, and drove off, holding guns to the heads of their stunned prey...
...Robert Stethem. Hamadei is thought to be one of the two gunmen who were actually aboard TWA Flight 847 when it was commandeered and who savagely beat and then shot the American sailor. Hamadei was detained at Frankfurt's international airport after officials discovered he was carrying a false passport and bottles packed with liquid explosives...
Although political dissidents in Yugoslavia enjoy a measure of freedom unusual in Communist countries, they are rarely permitted to travel abroad. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Belgrade government issued a passport to its most vociferous critic, Milovan Djilas, 75. The internationally renowned author, a founder of Yugoslavia's Communist system and a top aide of the late Josip Broz Tito's, had been denied a passport for nearly 17 years...
...Charles de Gaulle. But unlike the 1968 rioters, who were engaged in an ideological battle against "bourgeois society," this year's protesters had a strong economic motive. With nearly 30% of those ages 18 to 25 unemployed, the French young increasingly view a college diploma as the surest passport, perhaps the only passport, to a good job and a secure future. Many felt that the Chirac proposals would undermine what is meant to be an egalitarian educational system by making it more difficult for some to enter college and thus eventually to win good-paying jobs. Said a student protest...