Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomacy was off to Egypt last week to meet with his former negotiating partner, President Anwar Sadat. From there, the former Secretary of State planned jaunts to Jerusalem, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, London and Morocco. It seemed like a flashback to the good old days, and the announcement of the trip immediately fired rumors that "My dear friend Henry," as Sadat still calls him, might be embarking on a secret mission for the Carter White House. Not so. While Kissinger will definitely be shuttling through the Middle East, any diplomacy that he engages in will be purely personal...
Kissinger did his best to quash rumors of a secret mission when he arrived in Cairo, accompanied by Wife Nancy and Son David, 17. Modestly describing himself as a "private citizen," he insisted that he was "not here with an agenda." His trip was actually prompted by the decision of Hebrew University to give him an honorary doctorate, which he will receive this week in Jerusalem...
Four vice presidents of Data Resources Inc. (DRI) quit their jobs this week and forced Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and president of the consulting firm, to return early from a trip to Japan and set the firm in order...
When Pope John Paul II made his historic homecoming to Poland earlier this month, hundreds of Western journalists covered the trip as they would any fast-breaking major story, constantly revising and updating their reports as events unfolded. But their Polish counterparts had no such need for speed and flexibility. The content of their stories-and the number of accompanying photographs -had been largely dictated by the Polish Communist Party's Central Committee weeks before the Pope arrived...
...memo unabashedly noted that some Polish journalists would have "ideological and propaganda tasks" throughout the trip and that their stories, even those in nominally independent church publications, would be scrutinized by two five-man censorship teams. The document also recommended that a group of Polish journalists be assigned as propagandists to accompany "certain Western newsmen who show a hostile bias toward...