He had initially refused calls by human rights campaigners to use his cordial relations with the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to influence the case but appeared to change his mind while on a campaign visit in support of a woman, his former chief of staff, whom he has chosen to succeed him in Brazil's next presidential election.
Andrew Jacobs (NYT) BEDMINSTER: INTERIOR SECRETARY TO VISIT -- Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt plans to visit today in support of an application to designate the Vanderveer/ Knox house as a national heritage site, with federal funds to provide for its upkeep.
It was his visit last year in support of separatist fighters in Donetsk, and his appointment as honorary consul of the self-declared Donetsk republic, that earned him the EU's displeasure.
Endowed positions for both full time and visiting professorships in support of a global and environmental focus would offer a unique opportunity to create permanent bridges across all of the school's programs.
And to themselves, he said, especially if they need a little good press, like Lindsay Lohan, who has suffered through a year of rough tabloid treatment for her party-girl ways and has vowed to visit Kenya in support of the One Campaign.
On April 4, while visiting Memphis in support of the strike, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
The attitude spread to their boyfriends, who bragged to friends back home that they were visiting Laredo in support of their girlfriends, Miss Texas Contestants.
Beijing, July 8 , 2008– Over the last ten days UNICEF China has welcomed several of Asia's popular entertainers to Sichuan to visit projects in support of children's recovery from the devastating 12 May earthquake.
As the France-based Satrapi visits the United States in support of her latest film adaptation, "Chicken With Plums," may her provocative words ring as a verbal tour de force.
Visits to ravaged communities The ambassadors visited projects organized in support of children's recovery from the disaster and learned about UNICEF's emergency relief work on child protection, water and sanitation, and education in Sichuan.
