Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young took off on a ten-day visit to black Africa. Next week Secretary of State Cyrus Vance leaves for a quick trip to the Middle East-a fact-finding tour, essentially, but with the aim of finding ways to nudge the confrontation states back to the conference table at Geneva. Next month Vance goes to Moscow for talks on arms limitation. After that, he hinted, will come a variety of other meetings-possibly including direct negotiations with Cuba. Later this month the President will send Washington Lawyer (and former Defense Secretary) Clark Clifford to Cyprus...
...remain with the rebels until her husband Pierre, who was being held in a separate camp, was also freed. The couple finally left the rebels' stronghold under Libyan escort on Jan. 24. Four days later they arrived in Tripoli, where Gaddafi insisted on giving them an archaeological sightseeing tour before handing them over to the French...
...weak a description for his feelings, jeered, "Peanuts!" Recalls Union Leader Robert McHugh: "Instead of a Christmas celebration, it was more like a wake." Not so 150 miles north, in Stratford. Sikorsky President Gerald Tobias raced out of his office and hopped on an electric golf cart to tour the plant, shouting the news to machinists, assemblers and engineers. Says Riveter Maria Ferreira, 54: "It was like the war ended. Everyone went crazy, clapping, screaming, yelling...
...Haley has made well over $1 million in royalties, and the money seems bound to flow in even faster. To promote the book, he is making a three-month lecture tour. In addition, a two-record album telling of his hunt for roots will soon be on the market; a more detailed version will be forthcoming as a book, titled Search. Finally, he says, there are plans for further TV series, perhaps concentrating on young Kunta Kinte in Africa or his descendants' story just after the Civil...
...demonstration, which began in Holyoke Center at 11 a.m., culminated in what its organizers called "a walking tour of racism at Harvard." Leaders pointed out buildings where allegedly racist professors teach, and led the crowd in chanting slogans like "Asian, Latin, Black and White, against racism we'll unite...