Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naguib and his military junta were threatening war unless Britain ended her occupation of the Suez Canal zone. In three days in Egypt, Dulles impressed on Naguib the importance the U.S. attached to Britain's Suez base, the biggest military installation in the Middle East. Since Dulles' visit, Britain and Egypt have made progress toward an agreement which will give Egypt control of the Canal Zone but allow British military technicians to operate the base until Egyptians are taught...
...Three credits for the junior year abroad. Prospective students would to required to take nine credits during their first two years at Harvard, including two years two in the language of the foreign country they plan to visit...
...purely "illusory independence," France set about jamming the station, and sent in technicians to build a new one. The Andorrans promptly slapped a fat import tax on all radio parts. The French countered by charging 1,000 francs for an exit visa for any Frenchman who wished to visit Andorra. Andorrans protested that the French were ruining their tourist trade...
...Vinoba Bhave, born to India's Brahman caste, came to love the Untouchables. Like the Mahatma, he called them harijans, or "children of God." As he tramped across India's countryside, exhorting landowners to give up part of their holdings to landless peasants, the respected Bhave would visit the Untouchables in their outcast dwellings, and accept food from their hands. Slowly chipped at over the years, the Hindu practice of untouchability was declared illegal in the constitution which free India adopted in 1949. But Bhave, like Gandhi, knew that true justice for the Untouchables must come not from...
...Castel Sant' Angelo, spectacularly lighted by 1,023 flaming oil pots, Stephanopoulos and Papagos were saluted by guards in 16th-century costume. The party in the famed Borgia apartments atop the ancient pile (classically known as Hadrian's Tomb) was the high point of a four-day visit which had the practical end of uniting the Greeks and Italians in pledges of friendship...