Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prime minister's visit comes a month before he is due to swap jobs with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the conservative Likud bloc under a power-sharing pact between Likud and the left-of-center Labor Party...
...listen, there are these gems," says Kasimir Stachiewicz, a woodcarver on Main Street. Stachiewicz once called Geller to request a Bach partita. Then, not knowing whether Geller would play the request, or when, he decided to pay a visit. He climbed the stairs to the studio. Then he heard music: his request. Afraid to knock, he waited outside, hearing it faintly through the door...
...deal." A clear sign that the Soviets had misgivings after the event was the sparse coverage of the Daniloff arrest in the Soviet press. Pravda, the Communist Party daily, never mentioned it. Also, the authorities were unusually accommodating toward Daniloff's family and colleagues. Ruth Daniloff was allowed to visit her husband twice within a few days, though family visits are generally limited to one a month. Zuckerman, who was able to travel to Moscow without the usual delays in obtaining a visa, said his correspondent was being treated well but conditions at Lefortovo were harsh. "He was thrilled when...
...dangers of allowing the teaching of technology to supersede humanistic values ("A good man, as the Greeks would say, is a nobler work than a good technologist"). The American Cantabrigians were duly charmed, and while Charles went on to the rest of his brief, sans-Di U.S. visit, they resumed their four-day-long birthday party...
...European Community may announce new sanctions this week, following a weekend meeting outside London of the Community's twelve foreign ministers. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's stalwart stance against sanctions appears to be easing. During a visit to Washington this week, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe is expected to inform U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz that Britain will join with the rest of the European Community to ban imports of South African coal, iron and steel. Preparations are also under way for U.S. and British officials to meet in an undisclosed location with Oliver Tambo, president...