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Before the Bitburg controversy broke, White House aides saw Ronald Reagan's trip to Europe as a pleasant presidential peregrination filled with photo opportunities. His ten-day itinerary includes both statecraft and diplomatic theater: a state visit to West Germany, the economic summit meeting in Bonn, a royal fete in Spain, a speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, high-level meetings in friendly Portugal. Reagan's theme will be "accentuate the positive," and in his remarks and speeches he will emphasize the 40 years of peace, amity and (relative) prosperity since V-E day...
...laws were rushed through the state parliament following a ten-day walkout by power workers, who feared losing their jobs to outside contractors. Clergymen and civil rights and labor activists, who see the legislation as a threat to Australian unionism, have joined in the protests. Recently the unions blockaded the state's transportation links for 24 hours. Sir Joh afterward attacked the unions as a "bloodthirsty lot trying to grind down the community." Said he: "They do not realize their days of threatening and bullying people in this state are over...
President Gaafar Nimeiri was approaching Cairo International Airport, stopping over to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after a ten-day visit to the U.S., when he heard the news: the Sudanese armed forces, led by his closest associate, Commander in Chief General Abdul Rahman Suwar Al Dahab, had overthrown him. The coup climaxed a period of turmoil that had gripped Nimeiri's country for more than two weeks and escalated during his absence. A stocky, gray-haired soldier, Suwar Al Dahab, 51, announced that the army wanted to bring under control "the worsening situation in the country." The military...
...Governor of Kentucky; to remove a 1.2-in. by 0.2-in. sliver of glass that had lodged in her small intestine; in a private clinic; in London. Collins was in the British capital with other members of the National Governors' Association on the first leg of a ten-day European trip to study the effects of acid rain; her husband suggested that the glass she swallowed may have been in a meal she ate while aboard a Pan American World Airways jet en route to England. Pan Am said that it strongly doubted that this could have happened...
...news at TIME get a wider picture of the people who make it. The receptions are held throughout the year, but take on an added bustle in the first weeks of autumn, when government leaders converge on New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. In the ten-day period prior to their breakfast with Sepulveda, TIME journalists met with the President of Argentina (in this case, at his New York City hotel), the Prime Minister of Lebanon, and the foreign ministers of Australia, Austria and Jordan...