Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolving the dispute with Moscow were expected this Monday evening, when the President was scheduled to make a nationally televised address. To prepare for the speech, Carter continued to consult with his top aides throughout the weekend. Vance canceled a scheduled appearance at Yale University and called off a trip to Panama so he would be available for talks. He had been planning to join Vice President Mondale at the ceremonies that will turn over most of the Canal Zone to the Panamanians...
...John Paul, the tour was an opportunity to encourage American Catholics to tackle the social and religious problems that he considers most disturbing in Western society. Predicted a Vatican official on the eve of the trip: "The Pope is a born leader, and he will offer the American people the leadership for which they hunger...
During the next month, the pair will take their campaign to 52 cities. They will meet newspaper editors and appear on talk shows and at union rallies. The bills for the $150,000 trip will be covered by the $5,000 fee they charge for speeches before college audiences...
Ever since the secret trip to China, my own relationship with Nixon had grown complicated. Until then I had been an essentially anonymous White House assistant. But now his associates were unhappy, and not without reason, that some journalists were giving me perhaps excessive credit for the more appealing aspects of our foreign policy while blaming Nixon for the unpopular moves...
...from rural areas have fled the countryside to find work in the burgeoning industrial areas along the Texas border as well as in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City. Some 64% of the population now dwell in cities and towns. For a fortunate few, like Salvador Reyes Garcia, 28, the trip to the city has been worth it. Nine years ago, Reyes left a remote village in the Chihuahua desert for Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. There he landed a job as a sewing machine operator in a clothing factory at the minimum