Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hackneyed question greets you when you return from almost any trip: How was the weather? Another more focused and loaded query awaits you when you complete an exchange with the Soviet Union: So what about glasnost and perestroika--are they going to going to work...
...term glasnost means literally `voiceability'; it applies primarily to new attitudes toward freedom of the press and open expression of thought. Perestroika, on the other hand, refers to Gorbachev's plans for restructuring and democratizing the Soviet Union's economic and political system. Before our trip, the American press had filled us with ideas about these two concepts, describing grassroots democracy sprouting up in the form of private restaurants and independent businesses...
...official "exchange" segment of the trip took place in Kiev at Kiev State University. The program there consisted of discussions, formal events and touring. The format of the official roundtable dialogues was somewhat imposing. We convened around a large table, and each student was given a microphone. Topics of discussion ranged from conceptions of "The American Dream" to the issue of privileged universities and from nationalty problems to family life and personal habits. At first we were distrustful, and the Soviets undoubtedly were as well. We did not know whether these students had been been chosen because of their uncritical...
...Shamir spoke, Secretary of State George Shultz was heading to the Middle East, his third such trip in five weeks to try to sell his peace plan. Shamir, who remains adamantly opposed to Shultz's proposals, had fresh reason to be concerned last week. Five days before the Secretary of State left Washington, he met for 90 minutes with two Palestinian-Americans. Both are members of the Palestine National Council, a parliament-in-exile with some 400 members that serves as an umbrella organization for the P.L.O. as well as for nonmilitary Palestinian institutions...
Buoyed by McKay's statement that he is not facing indictment, the Attorney General announced that he intends to fly off Wednesday on a scheduled week- long trip to Latin America to seek greater cooperation with U.S. antidrug programs. Yet Meese is not in the best position to pressure foreign leaders. When other U.S. officials have asked Mexico, for example, to get tougher on its officials accused of drug corruption, the response has been disconcerting. After citing Meese's problems, some Mexican diplomats have added with a sardonic smile, "It's like Wedtech. These cases are very difficult to make...