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...that matter, curry in the dish. The club has two fellow outlanders trying to make it in the Middle Kingdom. One is a lanky Brazilian who speaks no English. The other is a powerful Senegalese whom Gazza introduces as Adam Caesar. His real name, it turns out, is Adama Cisse, but the Senegalese doesn't correct his British teammate. In halting English, he explains to Gazza that his contract hasn't been signed yet. His wife and children are back in France and fast running out of money. Could Gazza put in a good word for him with the coach...
...John fingers one of the gold chains around his neck, raises a glass of Famous Grouse and shoots his son a crooked almost-smile. "Aw, look at me, Dad and Jimmy Five Bellies," says Gazza, leaning back in his chair with a San Miguel as they toast news that Adama Cisse will get a contract, thanks in part to Gascoigne's intervention. "I'm so happy, you know? Finally, I'm so happy again...
...could only laugh in agreement, of course, and hand him a flyer. But it was my last one, and I crossed over from the Coop on my way back to Adama House for lunch. I was relieved of my burden, and satisfied, as does every leafleter when he gets to the proverbial end of the stack...
Since jailing Foreign Minister Ako Adjei and Information Minister Tawia Adama-fio last month, apparently for complicity in a plot to assassinate him, Nkrumah has been hard pressed to plug the gaps. To fill the Agriculture Ministry, the Redeemer redeemed Crowbar...
...Adama House: John D. White, Jr. '50, Clyde Eagleton, Jr. '48, George 1. Harris '50, John K. Lally '49, Richard Hatton '49, Merton M. Madway '48, M. Jerome Franklin '49, William S. Campbell...