Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rolled up at Orly Airport, he stepped onto an "extralong" red carpet for a brief walk to an Alouette helicopter and a 15-minute flight to the Esplanade des Invalides, where 150 mounted members of the elite Republican Guard were drawn up in splendid array. There was an obligatory wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, a succulent lunch of salmon and duckling hosted by Premier Raymond Barre (Hua demonstrated his mastery of Western cutlery) and a surprise meeting with Henry Kissinger, who was in town publicizing his memoirs. At week...
...those children, Elie Wiesel, led the commission on to Birkenau, the neighboring camp, where crematories once burned night and day. Linking arms with four other survivors, Wiesel marched over the tracks that had brought him here a world ago and laid a wreath on a monument to the fallen. "Do not let your eyes deceive you," he said quietly...
...Nazi occupation some 80,000 Jews were killed and thrown into a mass grave. Here a stark sculpture of monumental figures rises from a knoll. But the only evidence that Jews died here were the Hebrew words from Job, "Earth do not cover my blood," on the memorial wreath presented by the commission. Oddly, it was two non-Jews who did most to recollect the past. In his great poem, Babi Yar, Yevgeni Yevtushenko reminded his countrymen back in 1961, "I stand terror-stricken. Today I am as ancient in years as the Jewish people themselves are ... I myself...
...century abbey. Brezhnev took a drive through downtown Vienna, traversing the Ring, passing the Hofburg, and winding up in the courtyard of the Schönbrunn Palace, formerly the Habsburgs' summer residence, which he had asked especially to see. Brezhnev stepped out of his Zil only once, to lay a wreath at the Soviet war memorial (known to Viennese as the tomb of the "unknown plunderer...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat got a hero's welcome as he paid his first visit next day to Sinai's "caravan city." After flying to El Arish, he prayed in the sands of the Sinai and placed a wreath on the war tomb in honor of Egyptian soldiers who died in action. Then in a moving ceremony, Sadat kissed a huge Egyptian flag and raised it over El Arish. Shops had been painted, and the fountain in the town square, filled with trash since the start of the Israeli occupation in 1967, had been cleaned and filled with...