Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, August 23--Visit to village of N. with J. Cleanest village I've seen. Well-swept courtyards, neat latrines. Very impressed by wooden tables in many compounds for dishes to dry on. After lunch I repeated my dish washing demonstration before appreciative audience--much giggling when I explained how American men know how to wash dishes. Shortly after we arrived we gave another demonstration: how to boil water to make it safe. Once boiled, we strained it through a cloth to get the mud and dust out, then passed the cloth around so everyone could see the dirt deposit...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk spent a night at the ranch, discussed with the President a broad spectrum of foreign relations ranging from the situation in Indonesia to the upcoming visit of German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. There was no urgency in their discussions. For whatever his critics may say about Johnson's foreign policy, the President himself is convinced that his Administration's dealings with friends and foes alike have been even more fruitful than its relations with Congress, and that Rusk, furthermore, is the 20th century's most successful Secretary of State...
...undercut Communist pressures from within the government). But even at that, Tanzania's Agriculture Minister is a moderate ex-colonial, Derek Bryceson, who was overwhelmingly re-elected last month as a Government Party stalwart. Salaam is as benign and friendly a city as a European could hope to visit...
...Pakistani and Indian troops face each other along the 1,500-mile truce line from Rajasthan in the south to Kashmir in the north. India has charged Pakistan with 585 violations in 34 days. Pakistan has countered with accusations of 450 incidents by India. In his first visit to the front, India's Shastri last week exhorted his soldiers "to be alert and vigilant because we do not know how long the cease-fire will last...
...Reversal of Alliances"? Into Moscow's Vnukovo Airport flew French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a six-day visit-the first French mission to Moscow at that level since 1956. If De Gaulle's envoy was there to lend the Russians nothing more than an ear, this itself was interesting, since the Russians seemed to have something that they would like to whisper into it-talk of a new move against West Germany. In recent months the Russians have been hinting at an interest in renewing the moribund Franco-Soviet treaty of December 1944, under which...