Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after 34 speeches in which he tried vainly to sell the League of Nations. There were new doubts when Warren Harding's health failed in the waters off Alaska in 1923 before he expired in San Francisco. The jet plane has reduced the physical burden of presidential travel, but its very ease encourages...
Part of the travel surely is necessary. A President does need to see his nation, does need to confront the world's other authorities eyeball to eyeball. But does he have to turn the White House into a kind of pit stop...
...evidence of a plot has ever been brought forward. The hit man in such a scheme does not wander around, as Oswald did -walking, catching a bus, switching to a cab, picking up a revolver at his rooming house and walking again-with not enough money to travel far from the scene of the crime. He does not call attention to himself ahead of time by barging into the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City, demanding immediate visas...
...with "racial discrimination," which by the U.N.'s own canons includes ethnic discrimination as well. Israel's record is more vulnerable on that charge: Arab speakers in the U.N. debate ticked off a number of examples of discrimination against Arabs in the occupied territories, including restrictions on travel and harassment by police. Most galling to the Arabs is Israel's Law of Return, which grants instant citizenship to any Jew who immigrates to Israel from anywhere in the world, while Palestinian Arabs who fled their homeland during the 1948 war are still, in most cases, prevented from...
...headquarters, there are embassies in Mexico and Yugoslavia, the only two countries that recognize the Republicans as the legitimate government of Spain. The government publishes monthly newspapers in Paris, Mexico City, New York and Buenos Aires, and it issues passports, which are useful only if the bearer limits his travel to Mexico and Yugoslavia. The government also bestows medals upon Defenders of the Republic. The decoration has been awarded to French Philosopher Albert Camus, British Employment Secretary Michael Foot and Trades Union Leader Jack Jones. To finance their activities, the Republicans rely upon the generosity of supporters willing...