Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aide what the Illinois Democrat wanted to explore during the ten-day stay. "Tailored clothing," she replied. What she meant was custom-made suits. Savage not only gave short shrift to the official meetings that were the ostensible purpose of his tour, but also cut short his visit so he could devote three days to sightseeing and fittings in Hong Kong and Seoul. Total cost of the 16-day junket, which also included Japan: $6,731, presumably not including his haberdashery bill...
...Anthony Langone, until recently the IRS assistant commissioner of criminal investigation, allegedly flew repeatedly around the U.S. at the agency's expense to visit a mistress. He also is suspected of taking thousands of dollars' worth of IRS training materials for use in a private-investigation network that he started with Saranow and other retired IRS kingpins. Langone denies the charges...
...stranger to deadlines, Alexander Sutton recalls having 30 minutes to decide which of 700 pictures from Louis Farrakhan's controversial 1988 visit to Philadelphia to publish in the Daily Pennsylvanian. Working in TIME's picture department, Sutton has been combing through mountains of film each week to find the right images for such stories as a recent look at the plight of the world's refugees. In our New York bureau, David Muhlbaum of Middlebury College handles reporting on subjects as varied as the prospects for economic stability in Argentina and the consequences of posing for Playboy...
Lithuania's Catholics have also regained church buildings, established their own bimonthly magazine and, as of three weeks ago, are producing a TV show that is seen each Sunday. The man responsible for the new religious freedoms, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit Italy in November and is almost certain to pay a historic visit to the Polish Pontiff. It would be the first meeting ever between a Pope and a Soviet leader...
There is some indication that Bush's visit to Eastern Europe last month helped resolve the deadlock over the Polish presidency; General Wojciech Jaruzelski agreed to run and narrowly won with the tolerance of Solidarity's Lech Walesa. The diplomatic and intelligence assessments of the President's personal diplomacy have generally been good, emphasizing that a network embracing Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Moscow is a going concern...