Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ethiopia, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, leader of the ruling Provisional Military Council in Addis Ababa, was directing his anger at Washington. During a government-sponsored press tour (see following story), Mengistu accused the U.S. (falsely) of indirectly supplying arms to Somalia. At week's end an American delegation led by David Aaron, deputy director of the National Security Council, arrived in the Ethiopian capital to urge Mengistu not to burn his remaining bridges with the U.S. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood was in the Ogaden. His report...
Just how guided the tour would be became clear soon after the visitors arrived in Addis Ababa. "The boom came down hard on the first day," reported TIME'S David Wood. A slight, wiry official showed up at the Ghion Hotel and told the reporters: "We will insist that you stay at this hotel and that you stick to the official program." He was not kidding. His instructions were enforced by pistol-toting guards stationed outside the hotel. Anyone trying to make the normal round of journalistic contacts with diplomats and other sources-or even...
Concerned by the good publicity Sadat received in the U.S., Israel's Dayan sought to shore up his country's traditional support among Americans with a hastily planned tour of the U.S. At an unusual public meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Dayan urged his sympathetic audience to remember that it was the Egyptians who were refusing to negotiate, not the Israelis...
...modern life. "Take It Easy" and "The Road and the Sky," from his second and third albums respectively, were two early road songs. In Running on Empty, his fifth and latest release, Browne presents his most extensive look yet at The Road; the album was recorded live on tour last summer, and the material deals exclusively with the traveling life of the pop star. As a concept album, it's a real triumph; as a Jackson Browne album, however, it's a dismal flop...
...stage a week later. The effect of splicing the two performances together may seem overly cute, but the result is surprisingly moving. In all, about half the tracks were recorded on stage. The other half consists of performances in hotel rooms, backstage rehearsal rooms, even aboard the band's tour bus. The idea of capturing live performances other than the ones on stage is brilliant, and goes a long way toward giving the listener a more complete picture of life on the road than the traditional "live" album...