Word: trips
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Reagan's spokesmen insisted that the President-elect was very much in command even if not on the spot. He was keeping in touch by phone and making decisions. He announced one trip before the Inauguration: to Mexico to visit President López Portillo in early January. Beyond that, he had little to say. Explained his chief aide, Edwin Meese: "This is not a time in which you profitably make news. You don't want to lock yourself into policy positions prematurely...
...eternally curious child and woman as the maternal source and resource. It is also, implicitly, the story of Jesus and Mary. Eddie is consumed by the dream of transcendence, of return to the modern godhead of the self. He is off on a perilous trip down through the memory of the race, and his only connection to reality is the umbilical cord of his need and, finally, his love for Emily. He often curls naked into her side as if wounded, seeking succor, reliving the Pieta. Again and again, Eddie dies and is reborn; each time he finds the action...
...time he seemed more stable. His father, a loan collector in an Atlanta bank, gave him money for a round-the-world trip. In June 1979, the stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.) Chapman married Gloria Abe, the attractive Japanese American who planned the itinerary. Though Chapman earned only $4 an hour as a security guard, money seems not to have been a problem: the couple lived in a $400-a-month apartment in a downtown Honolulu highrise, and Chapman was able to indulge his newest passion, art. He bought expensive works and last year purchased...
According to Brezhnev's principal spokesman on the trip, Leonid Zamyatin, the Soviet President had explicitly told Gandhi that Moscow's troops would remain in Afghanistan "until the end." In a statement written for TIME (Dec. 8), Zamyatin argued that the Soviet army had been dispatched to Afghanistan solely to rescue the country from "interference" by the U.S. and its allies...
Still, India's leaders had no wish to of fend their visitor. Afghanistan was never publicly mentioned by Gandhi during Brezhnev's trip, though she expressed hope that the "independence" of India's neighbors would not come "under jeopardy." Afghanistan also went unmentioned in the joint declaration released after Brezhnev's departure. The document blandly stated that both countries "reiterate their opposition to all forms of out side interference in the internal affairs of the countries of the region...