Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives of twelve Israeli hostages. During the past five years, Palestinian terrorists, Latin American guerrilleros, Viet Nam War protesters and common criminals in Europe and the Americas have been responsible for roughly 260 skyjackings and political kidnapings. Their bold forays have brought a Dark Ages gloom to travel and diplomacy in much of the 20th century world. What has been learned about how to deal with them...
Britons to the Rescue. Two weeks ago, 122 Americans found themselves stranded for four days at London's Gatwick Airport. The Daedalus Travel Agency in New York, bookers of their charter flight, had failed to provide a plane for the return trip. When the Americans sent a deputation to the U.S. embassy, they were "totally disillusioned," in the words of Ruth Jacobs, a tourist from Queens, N.Y. "The embassy was adamantly opposed to giving us aid or getting us out of there." Eventually Britons came to the rescue. The British Social Service dispensed cash for food. The Grosvenor Hotel...
Discomfited by the utterances of such Asian tourists as Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Rogers had Hoffa's validation for travel to North Viet Nam voided on a technicality. "Private American citizens should not be involved in negotiations," said Rogers...
...BART works as expected, it will cut travel times by anywhere from 30% to 80%. For example, the trip from Oakland to San Francisco will take nine minutes, compared with 35 to 45 minutes by car in rush-hour traffic via the Bay Bridge...
Whites and wealthy blacks travel freely, moving throughout any part of the cities day and night, and driving around the countryside unarmed...