Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henry James' Washington Square, featuring, among many other intrusions, cartoon black minstrels and cowboys. Not what one might at first expect from so historic an institution as the Paris Opera Ballet, but both items came along on the troupe's first American appearance since 1948. Expectations for the visit ran very high. The company's school is considered one of the world's best, a preserver of both the French and Italian technique and dance vocabulary. The institution itself has an ineffable aura of glamour, and in three years as dance director, Rudolf Nureyev has earned a reputation for leading...
Even for Jesse Helms, the words were extreme. On a visit to Chile, the North Carolina Republican Senator accused U.S. Ambassador Harry Barnes of "planting the American flag in the midst of Communist activity." If President Reagan knew of the situation, Helms claimed, "he would send the Ambassador home." After returning to Washington last week, Helms charged that the State Department and Barnes were "trying to appease a bunch of leftists and Communists" by pushing for democratic reforms from the four-man military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet. Chile under Pinochet, said Helms, was moving toward "a stable, productive...
...contradictions in the U.S. stance were evident last week during a state visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo. Did the Reagan Administration press Pakistan to stop producing the more than 100 tons of opium that will reach the U.S. this year as heroin? Not very hard, since the Administration was arranging to give Pakistan a six-year, $4 billion military and economic aid package with no drug-strings attached. President Reagan had other serious matters to discuss with Junejo: Pakistan's reputed effort to produce nuclear weapons (which Junejo denied) and Pakistan's support for mujahedin rebels...
Former President Richard Nixon spent last week in Moscow on what his aide John Taylor described as a "private, fact-finding" mission. It was Nixon's sixth visit to the Soviet capital and his first since a 1974 summit with Leonid Brezhnev, just a month before Nixon resigned the presidency. Since he is the only U.S. President ever to visit the Kremlin, some diplomats speculated that Nixon might be helping to pave the way for a U.S.-Soviet summit. Others attributed the trip to Nixon's continuing campaign to build his image as a senior statesman...
...main stumbling block, both to the summit and to general progress in arms negotiations, remains Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the space- based defense system better known as Star Wars. "The U.S. has no intention of renouncing SDI," Mitterrand said at the end of his visit. "The U.S.S.R. insists that as long as SDI is maintained, there can be no advance...