Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-disciplined East Germans had generally been models of quiescence since their futile June 1953 riot in East Berlin, but lately they have become restless. Since the spring, 200,000 of them have sought permission to emigrate, obviously taking seriously the promise of freer travel and reunification of families made by the East Berlin regime when it signed the European security accord at last year's Helsinki Conference. But only 10,275 exit visas have been granted, and most of them to elderly people. Applicants have frequently been fired from their jobs and been subjected to police searches. Some...
...West German television. Laments a senior East German official: "We have found it's no good telling people they're better off than the Bulgarians or letting them take vacations in Czechoslovakia. They compare their life-style to what they see on Western television and want to travel to Italy, Spain or France...
...December 21, Coach Bill Cleary's charges will meet Notre Dame at South Bend, Ind., and are hoping for a repeat of last year's 8-2 romp over the Irish. The team will then travel to Madison, Wisc. on the following day to meet the U.S. Olympic squad, which the Crimson easily handled on November 24 at the Boston Garden...
...hoopsters then travel to South Carolina, as in the Atlantic Coast Conference, for the Carolina Classic. A first round win would mean a matchup with either Georgetown, 17th in Sports Illustrated's top 20, or Alabama, ranked 7th in the AP and UPI basketball polls. And you thought three-foot snow drifts were...
Meanwhile, though, the dispute between Aeroflot and Pan Am threatens a disruption of U.S.-Soviet air travel. The prospective bonanza that the 1980 Moscow Olympics offer to both lines would seem to dictate a compromise, but it will not be helped by an exchange of nationalistic incidents earlier this year. A few days after an Aeroflot official in Washington was arrested on a charge of drunken driving, a Pan Am employee in Moscow was accused by Soviet police of the same offense-even though he was cold sober. His case is still pending, presumably awaiting the outcome of the case...