Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planned and executed both the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem last November and Khanh's coup against General Duong Van ("Big") Minh in January. With a shrug, Khanh accepted the demands and promptly announced that Khiem would depart immediately for Paris and a protracted tour of countries aiding South Viet Nam in its war against the Viet Cong. Khanh hoped this further accommodation might still the noisy protests of his critics...
...Back to Leopoldville from a week-long tour of his native Katanga flew Premier Moise Tshombe. He had ceaselessly exhorted rural Africans to till the land and urban Africans to keep their hands out of the till, and had been cheered to the echo wherever he went. His most delicate mission, however, was to soothe the 4,000 grumbling ex-gendarmes who once served him admirably in the old secessionist days, and who had waited with forlorn fidelity in Angola during Tshombe's exile from the Congo. Now the troops were billeted uncomfortably in railroad boxcars at the mining...
...with the Dance. The incredible old soldier actually looked healthier than when he started the tour, despite Paris' fears that the long journey might prove too strenuous for a man of 73. But the southern exposure obviously agreed with him, and he was feeling so well that he complained about one day's schedule not being full enough. Seasoned De Gaullologists were startled to see him hugely enjoying a colorfully costumed Bolivian "devil dance," despite his dis dain for things folkloric. They were stunned when in Chile he actually responded with a big wave to photographers' shouts...
...affairs," said De Gaulle in Bolivia. He repeated it in Chile, after a restful two-clay sea voyage down the long coast to Valparaiso. From Chile, De Gaulle's Caravelle jet swept on across the Andes to Argentina and the seventh stop on his ten-nation tour. In Buenos Aires, internal politics reared its head when followers of ex-Dictator Juan Perón began cheering and chanting so loudly that they all but drowned out De Gaulle...
After a whirlwind tour of the West with Campaigner Lyndon B. Johnson, CBS Correspondent Dan Rather got back to Washington for a breather. There, his boss, News Director William Small, wanted to know how the campaign seemed to be going. Rather could not say. At today's pace, he explained, "you don't have time to get the sense, the smell of the campaign. You whip in and whip...