Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next year in Geneva was the second sign that the Kremlin is looking for a diplomatic opening to the West. The first was that Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, the fast-rising heir apparent to President Konstantin Chernenko, will lead a Soviet delegation to Britain in mid-December. Gorbachev's trip will mark the first visit of a top-ranking Soviet leader to Britain in eight years. For Gorbachev, who has already seen more of the West than all but a few Politburo members, the visit might be the dress rehearsal for a later trip...
...American relations. The criminal investigation, begun in 1983, was supposedly looking into the possibility that British Airways and other North Atlantic carriers had conspired to cut prices to drive Britain's Laker Airways out of business. Before his airline went bankrupt in 1982, Freddie Laker had offered round-trip fares between London and New York for as little...
...spite of the diplomatic debacle, Mitterrand appeared unruffled at a meeting at the Elysee Palace with West German Chancellor Kohl to discuss Kohl's trip to the U.S. and the entry of Spain and Portugal into the European Community. Asked about the presence of his name on Gaddafi's assassination list, Mitterrand said with an impatient smile, "If some thing happens, we will let you know." Said Kohl: "We will wait to see the developments [of the Egyptian inquiry], and we remain calm." One French official, referring to the arrest of the Libyan assassination team, down-played...
...Kentucky; to remove a 1.2-in. by 0.2-in. sliver of glass that had lodged in her small intestine; in a private clinic; in London. Collins was in the British capital with other members of the National Governors' Association on the first leg of a ten-day European trip to study the effects of acid rain; her husband suggested that the glass she swallowed may have been in a meal she ate while aboard a Pan American World Airways jet en route to England. Pan Am said that it strongly doubted that this could have happened...
...Crimson won't have to wait long to be tested, however. It will embark on its toughest road trip of the year this weekend when it travels to face Columbia and the University of PennsyIvannia