Quayle Leaves Today for Pacific Rim Tour
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Dan Quayle leaves today for an 11-day trip to the Pacific Rim nations of South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Malaysia.
Quayle’s primary mission will be to head the American delegation to the International Democratic Union Conference in Tokyo, a gathering of conservative party leaders from Western democracies.
But his itinerary also will include high-level meetings with key officials in each country, as well as his first session with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while in Tokyo.
On a refueling stop today in Anchorage, Quayle and Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner will meet with federal, state and local officials, as well as fishermen, to review the cleanup efforts of the major oil spill at Valdez, Alaska.
Quayle’s press secretary, David Beckwith, said the vice president will spend three hours discussing the oil spill before heading next to Seoul, South Korea, for the first stop of his foreign swing.
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