Word: uzbekistan
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nosing about the Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, whose expedition is viewed by some as a qualifying round for the Republican vice-presidential nomination, drank up the sights in the fabled old Uzbekistan city of Samarkand. In his local ramblings, Lodge communed with the ages in the blue-domed ruins of the Bibi-Khanum Mosque, a 3½-acre wonder built by Tamerlane in 1399-1404 in memory of his favorite wife (of eight...