Correspondents said that it appeared that the women had been held in relative comfort in a guest house for most of their time in North Korea, and been used by North Korea as a diplomatic tool to secure a visit by a high-profile US envoy.
Chicago tried again, with a petition signed by 3.4 million schoolchildren, for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition and New York presented a petition to secure a visit from the bell for the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Even with IIE-SRF and SAR's support, many local administrative and financial issues made it very difficult for me to secure a visiting position.
The joy that greeted full-time in the home crowd at Murrayfield was enhanced by the news of Cardiff's failure to secure a bonus point as Edinburgh avoided an away tie with Leinster and instead secured a visit by four-time Heineken Cup champions Toulouse.
While Sukhpal's immigration paperwork proceeded through the courts, his wife Parwinder made multiple attempts to secure a visa to visit him in the United States.
He wants to secure a state visit by Mr Bush, either before or after the Shanghai meeting of APEC, the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation group, which is likely to be the first occasion on which Mr Bush and Mr Jiang will meet.
18 months later, in November 2007, Adel secured a visa to visit Sweden, to speak at a human rights conference, and to be reunited with his sister Kavser, a registered refugee and part of a sizeable Uighur community in Stockholm.
In March 1948, while there was still intense debate going on in the United Nations over Palestine, Truman's old friend from Kansas City, Eddie Jacobson, took advantage of his ties with the president to secure a private White House visit for Chaim Weizmann, the future president of Israel.
THRASHERS 3, CAPITALS 2 Éric Perrin and Slava Kozlov scored on Atlanta's first two shootout opportunities to secure a victory over visiting Washington.
Eric Schultz, a White House spokesman, pointed out that Mr. Obama was the first president to release the visitor logs regularly, and added that "being a supporter of the president does not secure you a visit to the White House, nor does it preclude you from one".
Later, she secured a studio visit after she ran into the artist at the grocery store.
