Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them foreigners, were undergoing hospital treatment for AIDS in the Soviet Union. About 30 foreigners had been treated and deported, he told TASS, while six more would be sent home later. He also said that the one Soviet patient, a homosexual who had caught the disease during a trip abroad, had infected 14 others, presumably all Soviets, who had been treated in a hospital and sent home but were being kept under observation...
...transatlantic telephone call came shortly after 9 a.m. last Tuesday, just as National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci was leaving Santa Barbara, Calif., to join Ronald Reagan for a trip to Los Angeles. The caller, Horst Teltschik, had news that would please the President. The West German National Security Adviser told Carlucci that Chancellor Helmut Kohl was about to announce plans to retire 72 aging Pershing IA missiles tipped with American nuclear warheads. At a stroke, one of the chief obstacles to a long-awaited Soviet-American agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces seemed to dissolve, and a Washington summit between...
...John Paul's Sept. 10-19 journey will feature blessings and warm homilies to huge and friendly crowds (see following story). But this time he will rely far more on advice from American bishops, who conferred with him in Rome, and he is expected to avoid confrontational speeches. The trip, through the Sunbelt and California to Detroit, will acknowledge U.S. cultural pluralism and deal with a few political necessities as well...
...East Germany, Honecker is scheduled to make a five-day visit to his homeland. His host will be West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and a lot more than nostalgia will be in the air. Postponed earlier as a result of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the trip will mark the first time an East German party leader has set foot in West Germany, and only the second time since the two countries were created nearly 40 years ago that leaders of both have met face-to-face on German soil...
Honecker's visit repays a trip made to East Germany by then Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in 1981. The East German leader's plans for a reciprocal visit fell victim to a freeze in superpower relations in 1984, after West Germany had decided to deploy U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles and the Soviets, in response, had walked out of arms negotiations in Geneva. Criticized in the Soviet press for planning to carry out his trip despite Bonn's move, Honecker dutifully canceled at the last minute. His arrival in West Germany now is one more sign of how U.S.-Soviet...