Word: vips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After their landing, the four men were taken to a VIP villa. Scherrer and his deputy for ground forces, Brigadier General Claude M. McQuarrie Jr.both of whom are privy to U.S., NATO and Turkish military secretswere questioned for a total of about 20 hours. Scherrer's inquisitor was a KGB colonel sent from Moscow. "I had to tell him several times he was being disrespectful and trying to put words in my mouth," said the general...
Greyhound also wants to bring more affluent passengers to the bus. Kerrigan is expanding a VIP service, which at some terminals enables riders to check their baggage at the ticket counter, leave their coats with a steward, travel nonstop for up to 200 miles and arrive at their destination with nearly the speed of air travel (counting the drive to and from the airport). To save suburbanites the trouble of traveling into the city to catch a bus, Greyhound built satellite terminals near mass transit systems on the edges of Chicago and Cleveland-an idea that it plans to extend...
...force of 400 Zambian chauffeurs-in-training tooled around Lusaka in a fleet of 120 VIP cars, each equipped with a radiotelephone. The opening of the university's fall semester was delayed so that overflow guests could be housed in the dormitories...
...high points of a foreign VIP's visit to Peking used to be an airport greeting by Premier Chou En-lai and the "cordial conversation" with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Now there is a third. In recent weeks, ranking visitors from Rumania and North Korea have met not only Mao and Chou but also General Huang Yung-sheng, 64, Chief of Staff of China's People's Liberation Army. Last week when the heads of state of South Yemen and the Sudan came to town, Huang acted as co-host with Chou, who has accorded the general...
...three barbers, who clipped the shaggy locks of G.I.s outfitted in fresh fatigues for the impending visit. Artillery pieces were moved to drier ground, a pathway and railing were constructed to facilitate inspection of an enemy arms cache and enclosures were erected around open-air latrines to provide VIP privacy. The visitors were treated to a spectacular aerial bombardment of a nearby hillside, although no one claimed that there were enemy troops on it. A colonel called the attack "reconnaissance by fire...