Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his three-day visit, Kasparov will meet with Harvard President Derek Bok and speak at the Russian Research Center...
...demonstrations coincided with the visit of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the reform-minded Soviet president, for East Germany's 40th anniversary...
...cooperative adoption may raise unsettling questions for the children. In an era of divorce, remarriage and yours-mine-and-ours families, it is perhaps less anomalous than it once was to contend with two sets of parents. Still, what does the child call this woman who comes to visit and sends the birthday cards? What is he or she to think when that person later has children she decides to keep? Worst of all, what happens if the birth mother, having endeared herself to her child, suddenly stops coming to visit...
...Evanses, Nicole and their new daughter Rebecca are just beginning to work out some answers -- a process that is not without pain. Nicole admits she felt "a tearing away" when the Evanses went home from the hospital with the baby; she paid her first visit the very next day. "It's been hard for us to hear the true sadness in Nicole's voice," admits Jan, "when we have felt so much joy." More than once Nicole has had to battle the urge to pick up Rebecca and run, particularly when Jan went out shopping and left them alone together...
...Israeli government, however, considers the new U.S. policy a godsend. It is hoping that thousands of such emigres will now actually come to the Jewish state and help balance the rapidly growing Arab population. Finance Minister Shimon Peres announced during a visit to Washington last week that Israel expected some 100,000 immigrants from the Soviet Union by 1992 and planned to spend $3 billion to assist them. "I don't think there is anything more important than to have Russian Jews coming to Israel," he said...