Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip had a sobering effect," Robinson said. "[It showed us] there's a real world out there where human rights are being violated...
...students went because they were interested in human rights issues. They said the trip heightened their dedication to helping oppressed people. "We are so lucky to live here. This gives us an obligation to work for people who are suffering," Fastenberg said...
...trip] took the abstract human rights issue and brought it to a personal level, and tied it to faces, names, and people we will never forget," Sheridan said...
Meanwhile, George Shultz, who was in the midst of a European trip in search of assurances that U.S. bases would remain in Greece and Turkey, held a press conference in Ankara at which his usually stony face fairly beamed with satisfaction. He defended the exercise off Libya as a simple assertion of "traditional maritime rights," but later described the action as "blowing the whistle" on Gaddafi. Shultz was one of the first U.S. officials affected by a stepped-up alert against potential Libyan terrorist reprisals. When he left Ankara for Athens, his Boeing 707 was escorted by a team...
...night's chief winner was Out of Africa with seven awards, including Producer-Director Sydney Pollack's Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture. After seven previous nominations, Geraldine Page, 61, finally made it for her role as an aging woman returning to her roots in The Trip to Bountiful. William Hurt was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a homosexual prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman. The awards for Best Supporting players went to Anjelica Huston, who was a Mafia princess in Prizzi's Honor, and Don Ameche, 77, for portraying the rejuvenated geriatric in Cocoon...