Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task of covering Teng's visit was made difficult by the size of the press entourage: 1,200 or so Western reporters, cameramen and soundmen, as well as 32 Chinese journalists, the largest press delegation ever to accompany a foreign official in the U.S. Says Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary, who reported on Teng's White House visits: "It was one of the most suffocatingly covered events to come to Jimmy Carter's Washington. Reporting this story required nothing so much as a sharp pair of elbows, a knack for getting into the right press pools...
...gesture better captured the spirit and mood of Teng's nine-day visit to the U.S. last week. After surviving purges back home, setting his country on a quick-step march toward modernization, and winning diplomatic recognition from the most powerful nation in the West, Teng could be forgiven for indulging in a moment of triumph. His trip to Washington was the first ever by a top-ranking Chinese Communist leader, and it added a personal normalization of relations between the two countries to the diplomatic normalization that took effect...
...site for a papal visit, Mexico abounds with historical paradox. So ingrained is anticlericalism in this overwhelmingly Catholic land that President Lopez Portillo was under considerable pressure not to see the Pope at all, much less greet him upon his arrival. Under Mexican law, John Paul could have been fined for wearing clerical garb in public. Of course, that law is now winked at, as are constitutional provisions that prohibit the church from operating schools and priests from saying anything about political matters...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat managed to hog the rug, but Gerald Ford didn't seem to mind not getting the full red-carpet treatment on his first visit to the Middle East. In Egypt, the former President stayed at the Aswan Oberoi along with another tourist, the Shah of Iran. Ford, accompanied by his wife Betty, also stopped off in Israel. "I came as a private citizen," he said, and hence felt little compunction about beating a hasty retreat from a dinner with Premier Menachem Begin. After all, Private Citizen Ford had a date to watch the Super Bowl...
...techniques like closeups, fadeouts and establishing shots. Says Marvel Editor Roy Thomas: "Unlike most comic artists, Marvel's illustrators always drew their pictures first-before the writers put in dialogue. It was a very cinematic approach." Italian Film Director Federico Fellini is a fan. He once paid a visit to Marvel's New York office and pronounced that "Lee added his own kind of ironic parody to comics...