Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covering a string of one-night stands is nothing new for Fischer. "It's like a presidential election campaign transplanted to an exotic clime," he says, recalling his days aboard George McGovern's rattling bus-train-airplane caravan two years ago. "But in this case, the fatigue is compounded by the difference in time zones between the U.S. and the Middle East." Fischer had expected to recover from transatlantic jet lag during the President's stopover in Salzburg, Austria, but it was in Salzburg that Secretary of State Kissinger threatened to resign, and sent the press corps...
...likes of Dean Fischer," and had to take up temporary residence on a Nile riverboat, his experiences quickly took an upward turn. "In the little town of Kafr az Zayyat," Wynn writes, "the crowd dragged me up to the front row to stand beside the mayor as the presidential train roared past. Later, villagers-all total strangers but understanding that I was an American-insisted on pumping my hand and begged me to stay for lunch...
...When the train reached Alexandria, Nixon got a reception even more boisterous and friendly than the one he had experienced in Cairo. A million or more people crammed the sidewalks, perched on the sea walls and crowded the balconies of the sprawling, seedy old Mediterranean city to cheer as the President passed by on his ten-mile motorcade. Lines of policemen on motorcycles flanked the presidential limousine, and four Jeeps full of troops armed with automatic rifles followed the Secret Service car in the procession...
...Government's costly programs to train unskilled blacks and other hard-core unemployed had mixed results, and these efforts have been cut back. Six years ago, almost half of the people enrolled in the programs were black; today only one-third of the trainees are black. One reason is that many in the underclass have become discouraged with the programs. The Labor Department reports that 160,000 blacks are no longer even bothering to look for work because of what it calls "discouragement over job prospects." Says Robert S. Browne, director of the Black Economic Research Center based...
...Award for the best American play. Last week, however, it seemed that Pinero might be germinating a new plot. Approaching a subway token booth in a downtown Manhattan station around 12:35 a.m., he was overtaken by a swarm of youths, who vaulted the token turnstiles and boarded a train. When the token seller cursed them as "Spanish trash," Pinero let loose with a few oaths of his own. Picked up by a transit cop on a charge of harassment, Miguel got rather more attention than he had bargained for. A marijuana joint found in his dungarees pocket earned...