Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, SNAP got another visit. Seventy-five people, led by DeJesus, who has lived in the South End longer than almost any other Puerto Rican--18 years--stood in the street oustide SNAP's cramped offices and demanded that SNAP hire five Puerto Ricans. In September, three months later, the five began work...
From Malaysia, Humphrey flew on to Djakarta; he was the first top-ranking American to visit the Indonesian capital since "President for Life" Sukarno was eased from power 16 months ago. Fearful that American visibility would only aid the Reds in their comeback attempts, the U.S. has maintained a "low profile" position in Indonesia since the anti-Communist resurgence against Sukarno began in October...
...American Tourist. The trip was billed simply as the private visit of an American tourist, but of course nothing that Jacqueline Kennedy-or any other Kennedy-does is ever simple or very private. Though the State Department had no hand in promoting the tour, Washington was nonetheless pleased by it, and hoped that it might presage an improvement in American-Cambodian relations, which have been almost nonexistent. Sihanouk broke off relations with the U.S. in 1965, as a protest against the bombing of a Cambodian village by South Vietnamese planes. The U.S., for its part, has repeatedly complained about Cambodia...
...visit may have helped "to relax" relations, Sihanouk later said, but it did nothing to alter the Prince's conviction that "sooner or later, all Asia will be Chinese." In nearly three hours of bafflegab at a press conference, he unequivocally supported Hanoi's terms for ending the war in Viet Nam. As soon as America stopped sending planes over the Cambodian border and recognized his country's "territorial integrity," allowed the Prince, he would be delighted to resume diplomatic relations with Washington...
Prayer is manifest in Ward 4, especially on the Irish blocks, where it is framed and hung on the wall. "Visit this habitation, we beseech thee O Lord, and protect us from the snares of our enemy." The homes with prayers in the alcove are likely to contain suspicious inhabitants who quickly close the door with, "I'm not interested," or "I've read all about the war," or "My husband's out now, but when he gets back he'll tell me how to vote...