George (Charles S. Dutton) - the bus driver and trip organizer.

At every available opportunity, the trip organizers trotted out some local African chieftain who announced that the problems had never been as bad as reported and, in any event, were now rapidly slipping into memory thanks to the robust efforts of the Sudanese government.

The Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov will embark this summer on what trip organizers say is the first circumnavigation of Greenland.

Two other officers from the precinct, Michael A. Alberti, 26, and Frederick W. Vasselman, 27, who were two of the trip organizers for the precinct, were suspended.

Even when young children are not part of the mix, trip organizers say employees are bringing friends, siblings, parents and grown children instead of spouses.

Ezra is one of the official trip organizers for Birthright Israel trips for the US, Germany and the Former Soviet Union states.

Travel agents said they had not seen a dropoff in interest in travel to the Soviet Union since the State Department advisory was issued, but many said they were advising Moscow-bound tourists to be, as a trip organizer said, "as alert and aware as if you were visiting New York or Naples."

These organized offices and support systems include aides-de-camp, press officers, financial managers, speech writers, trip organizers, event planners, protocol officers, chefs and other kitchen employees, waiters, and various cleaning staff, as well as visitors' centre staff and tour guides at both official residences.

When trip organizers returned it and told Ms. Blackburne she had to pay her own way, she did - and had the foundation reimburse her.

They were given an official welcome, and some Government ministers and trip organizers speculated on possible ties with Libya and even a visit by its leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.