Word: visits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...society raises over one million dollars each year for student scholarships and sponsors a Visiting Scholars program, in which professors visit other institutions with Phi Beta Kappa chapters...
...allegations--the embarrassment has mounted beyond anything Clinton could have imagined. A House G.O.P. leader confirmed to TIME that Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Trent Lott have met with committee chairmen to discuss ways to highlight Clinton's embarrassing China dealings in advance of the President's visit to Beijing in June. The strategy appears to be working. Though the China connection may have nothing to do with Clinton's decision to grant the waiver, it is giving Republicans a kind of traction the Lewinsky scandal never...
Late Wednesday night, after Parliament threatened to begin impeachment proceedings and the armed forces commander, General Wiranto, paid a private visit to Suharto's residence, loyalty paid off. The old man was finally stepping down, and Habibie, 61, would take over. Yet even at Thursday morning's hasty ceremony for the handover of power, Habibie kept up his characteristic deference. After a sadly smiling Suharto apologized for his mistakes and announced his resignation, Habibie appeared to hesitate. His mentor gestured with his hand, like a father to a nervous child, and Habibie stepped forward to take the oath of office...
...week later, when U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson arrives in India to lay the groundwork for President Clinton's visit later this year, he delivers the usual boilerplate warnings that India should exercise "restraint" in its nuclear program and take "no provocative actions." India's Defense Minister George Fernandes assures Richardson that New Delhi will do nothing rash, since it is still engaged in that policy review. "We were sucked in," says a U.S. diplomat. "We came away from the meetings saying, 'Hey, they're not going to take any precipitous actions.'" A stern letter is sent to Clinton by Pakistani...
...Kennedy eventually betrayed Sinatra by choosing to stay with the more wholesome Bing Crosby during a visit to California. It was a humiliation that sent Sinatra rightward, into the arms of Nixon, then Reagan, which is where a lot of his audience was going in any case. Years had to pass before he could re-emerge entirely as a lodestar of bipartisan style. "I am," he once said, "a thing of beauty." It was a complicated beauty, but he had a point...