Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, the White House insists, the President has no intention of making the visit to Rumania seem like an anti-Soviet gesture. "Eastern Europe, after all," says one man close to the President, "is central to the issue of East-West peace." In fact, if there is any likelihood of detente with Russia, with the upcoming disarmament talks as a first step, Nixon's next major mission may well be to Moscow...
...members arrived at New York's Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue with clubs and chains in anticipation of a disruptive visit by Black Militant James Forman, who had been demanding "reparations" from white churches. The league intended to bar Forman from entering-despite the temple officials' stated willingness to hear him speak and to listen to his arguments. A showdown was avoided when the black leader failed to appear on schedule. Now the league is planning a nine-week camp program near Woodbourne, N.Y., to train members in such things as the use of karate, the handling...
...potentially effective-such reforms ever proclaimed in Latin America. >In Argentina, terrorists firebombed 13 supermarkets owned by the International Basic Economy Corporation, a company controlled by the Rockefeller family. The fires, which destroyed seven stores and damaged six, were presumably ignited to protest the New York Governor's visit to Argentina this week on his fourth round of "listen and learn" trips. To head off demonstrations when Rocky arrives, the government arrested more than 100 students. > In Uruguay, President Jorge Pacheco Areco found himself in a showdown fight with striking unions, which blocked his efforts to bring the country...
...Paraguay, student unrest boiled up in the wake of Rockefeller's visit, when police used tear gas and truncheons to break up a demonstration at an engineering school. Rallying against police brutality, students at one point last week took over a church in Asuncion, and most of the country's high school and college students trooped out on strike...
...there to read the omens for the forthcoming Apollo 11 moon shot than the 3,000-year-old temple of the original Apollo? So off went Wernher von Broun, the man who directed the design of the rocket that will hurl American astronauts toward the moon this month, to visit the temple at Delphi. "Whatever Apollo's oracle said," reported Von Braun after the consultation, "I am convinced that we will succeed because no other space operation was ever so well prepared in advance." But what did the oracle predict? "The oracle," he said cosmically, "was ambiguous, as usual...