Word: visiting
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...typical returning traveler. Arrested last December when he applied for a visa at a U.S. consulate in Australia, Beane won a court battle that allowed him to stay in that country. Instead, he voluntarily decided to return to the U.S. so he could visit his ailing father in West Rutland, Vt. But when he landed at Los Angeles airport, U.S. marshals arrested him, and the Marine Corps later officially charged him with desertion and other crimes related to his Viet Nam days. If convicted, Beane could face life imprisonment. Christine Beane, the mother of the former Marine, said...
...over the 1982 victory against Argentina in the Falklands war, and despite domestic opposition, pressed ahead with the modernization of Britain's aging Polaris nuclear submarine fleet, accepted U.S. cruise missiles on British soil and last year allowed U.S. F-111s to strike Libya from British air bases. Her visit to Moscow in April, during which she spent 13 hours in private with Mikhail Gorbachev, cemented her position as a world figure. British cartoonists have even taken to portraying her with a Churchillian cigar. She plans to visit Reagan in July, and it is likely that once again the discussion...
When Pope John Paul II last visited his native Poland, in 1983, he made only veiled references to Solidarity, the outlawed independent labor movement. The martial law that had abruptly ended Poland's democratic experiment was still in effect, and he was not even permitted to visit Gdansk, the Baltic shipbuilding city that gave birth to Solidarity. But last week, on his third visit as Pope to his homeland, John Paul more than made up for lost time. Speaking in Gdansk from a giant outdoor altar built in the stylized form of a wooden sailing vessel, the Pontiff not only...
...command to become the new Defense Minister, made his debut at a two-day conference in Moscow of high-ranking Warsaw Pact officers. A career soldier with combat experience in World War II, Yazov is believed to have made a favorable impression on Gorbachev during the Soviet leader's visit last summer to Vladivostok, where the general was based as commander of the U.S.S.R.'s far eastern military district. Yazov was summoned to Moscow last February and given the Defense Ministry's top personnel job. That is not a traditional launching pad to the top, but its occupant...
Soon the President is among the faded glories of the West's oldest free traders and the doges of Venice, with a nip down to Rome Saturday to visit Pope John Paul II and savor a few of the things that last and last and last. Then follows the embrace of his high political compatriots, the more-or-less board of directors of the consortium of major industrialized free powers, a comforting, clubby, forgiving group, every one of them scarred and battered and worried. They listen and sympathize and even laugh with one another. They are pols...