'What we should get on with now,' Makubele said, puffing his pipe after the excitement over the boys' trip quieted, 'is Mandiso's circumcision.

In this last category is a tart 1971 letter to The New York Times about the "widespread rejoicing" over President Nixon's upcoming trip to China.

"The sterile furor over our recent trip and our absence at the last meeting was truly unfortunate," the statement said.

In fact, the squabbling over Mr. Giuliani's trip even extended to Washington.

Just about the best of these over timber, he made a successful debut over fences at Carlisle and further improvement seems likely over today's longer trip.

He was referring to a growing domestic political squabble over his trip that has raised the possibility of a breakup of the unity Cabinet and early elections.

The Catholics were worried that anger over the audience cast a pall over the Pope's 10-day trip to the United States.

The Bush administration's struggle to rethink a faltering Iraq strategy hung over her entire trip like a shadow.

In his remarks, the President made reference to the controversy raging in the United States over his nine-day, five-city trip to China.

Over the Rangers' recently completed four-game trip, Kasparaitis was minus-3.