Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more relieved at Brezhnev's endurance than Jimmy Carter and his foreign policy advisers in Washington. Only a few days earlier they had learned from French diplomats that during President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's visit to Moscow, Brezhnev had seemed to be deteriorating badly. At the airport welcoming ceremony, he shuffled past the guard of honor, clutching Giscard's arm. He seemed alert during his talks with Giscard, but his speech was badly slurred and he had trouble breathing. At dinner he sometimes did not respond when addressed and he ate his food with...
...thus takes her place alongside Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi and Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike as modern women politicians who have made it to the top. In keeping with British tradition, Thatcher will be addressed simply as "Prime Minister." Even before she paid her first visit to Downing Street, her campaign aides had arrived, their arms loaded with paper work. The government of a determined woman whose work ethic had been forged in the heartland of England was taking shape with no delay...
Shortly after he took office in December, Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, following a ritual established by his predecessors, scheduled a trip to Washington to clear up what he thought would be some minor issues. As it happened, Ohira's visit to the U.S. last week took place in an atmosphere of tension and ill will caused by the growing confrontation between the U.S. and Japan over trade...
...substantive trade issues were resolved during the visit, but Ohira showed a conciliatory attitude that managed to ease, if not erase, the skepticism about Japan's intentions and the talk of economic retaliation. In his three-hour meeting with President Carter, Ohira pledged to push to narrow the trade gap between the two nations, noting that some improvement has already been made. Japan's trade surplus in the first three months of this year totaled $2.7 billion, vs. $6.7 billion in the same period last year. Generally Carter and Ohira hit it off fairly well. Honoring Ohira...
...shortly before Pope Paul VI made him the Vatican's "Foreign Minister," Archbishop Agostino Casaroli slipped into Poland for a visit. Not long thereafter, to Casaroli's satisfaction, Paul appointed the vigorous and intellectual Archbishop of Cracow, Karol Wojtyla, to the College of Cardinals...