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...Wednesday, after his brief stopoff in Egypt, Carter is booked to fly to Paris for a wreath-laying at l'Arc de Triomphe, a walk along Normandy's Omaha Beach, one of the first to be stormed by Allied liberators in 1944, and dinner with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing at Versailles. Carter is expected to brief Giscard on the U.S.-Soviet strategic arms talks and will also discuss U.S. concern over the booming international arms business and the spread of atomic weapons. As a favor to Giscard, who leads a center-right political coalition that faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Winging His Way into '78 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...times, Mr. King took things easy in the chintzy "Presidential Room" at Blair House, diagonally across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. When he said his goodbyes, he told his hosts (officially, the State Department) that there was no place that he liked better. Then there had been a stopoff in New York, at the Harvard Club, in a simple room plastered with pictures of faded football teams and Crimson crews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Home Again | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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