Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Amid great fanfare, Nkrumah sent Foreign Minister Alex Quaison-Sackey off to Washington with a personal letter for Lyndon Johnson. If U.S. officials were hoping for news of an important development, however, they were in for a letdown. Nkrumah, who expects to visit Hanoi soon, was chiefly interested in making sure that U.S. bombers would not turn his arrival into the wrong kind of reception blast. Patiently, L.B.J. assured the Ghanaians that "not a bomb has fallen" on Hanoi, but that the U.S. would not stop its bombing of other parts of North Viet...
...mission that held the most fascination was French Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux's visit to Red China. At week's end it was not certain just what, if anything, had transpired, but it was at least a top-level visit. Malraux represented Charles de Gaulle and he did speak with Mao Tse-tung (see THE WORLD...
Shastri has managed to build a slight reputation abroad as a man of some mettle. His response to Washington's cancelation of his June visit showed that-when his country's pride was involved-he had spunk. Shastri flew off to Canada and viewed the U.S. from the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, told reporters that he could not come to the U.S. this fall even if Lyndon Johnson wanted him. (He may very well come next spring.) Shastri has maintained his aid arrangements with both the big powers. The U.S. this year will give him $110 million...
Moreover, at the direction of State Department authorities, carpenters began throwing up wood-and-Masonite barriers before the department's major entrances as a security measure. Henceforth, no one will be allowed admission to the building without showing an identification card or having the purpose of his visit verified...
...June trip to Washington under the press of Viet Nam business, Shastri's cool unconcern paid off with Indian audiences, proving to their satisfaction that humility pays. Last week Shastri tackled a micro cosm of the problems that plague his nation. He wrapped up his four-day visit to Yugoslavia by attempting once again to re-establish India's image as a crisis mediator, signed a communique that neither damned the U.S. nor praised the Viet Cong. Back in New Delhi, he called in the bosses of India's 16 states and wrung from them approval...