Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet policy. We find the Soviet attitude concerned, interested and constructive. We are hopeful of a visit by the Soviet Foreign Minister, but we don't know when it will take place...
Last week a delegation from the Washington-based International Center for Development Policy, a left-of-center think tank, paid a private visit to the ravaged country. Robert E. White, a former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, headed the tour. Over the span of a week, the group visited Kabul and Mazar-i- Sharif, a surprisingly peaceful city of more than 100,000 people on Afghanistan's border with the Soviet Union. One stop on the I.C.D.P. tour was a large, blue-tiled mosque, where about 1,500 men listened as a stooped, aged mullah read from the Koran. When...
...dogged, but on Lesbos, sovaros is high tribute indeed, and the people of Pelopi have it by the barrelful. For just that reason, Pelopi's President Constantinos Stephanou says he foresaw a bright future for Dukakis even back in 1976 when the Massachusetts Governor paid the village a visit: "I knew he was going somewhere, because he's very serious. America hasn't had a serious President since Kennedy...
Gorbachev was clearly irritated when, just as he was leaving for a state visit to Yugoslavia last month, the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya carried a sharp attack on glasnost. According to persistent but unconfirmed reports, he concluded that Ligachev was behind the attack and reacted by stripping him of some of his powers over the Soviet press and television. Those powers were reportedly shifted to one of the Soviet leader's strongest backers in the Politburo, Alexander Yakovlev, 64. However, the Soviet leadership showed no sign of strain at the end of last week when Ligachev appeared with Gorbachev and other...
...mentioned that my second visit with Nixon occurred at a dinner last spring in Saddle River. The ground outside his house was soaked with rain, and no sooner had I entered the living room than I realized that I had tracked great clods of mud on the yellow-white carpet. Flustered, I called to the butler and asked him to do what he could with my destruction while I cleaned off my shoes in the bathroom. When I went back to the living room, scared to death, the carpet was spotless. Not a trace of a stain anywhere. The yellow...