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Bush and Ortega traded barbed comments from afar before the face-to-face meeting, and the president made a point of giving Nicaraguan opposition candidate Violeta Chamorro a kiss when they met. She was an invited guest at Arias' diplomatic conference, and Bush was holding a coffee for her and Panamanian political figure Guillermo Endera today to underscore his opposition to the two governments they are battling...
...late 20s, still single, he decided to attend Harvard Business School. The curriculum appealed to him far more than Cambridge's liberal atmosphere. Watergate was nearing its climax, and Bush pere was in a defensive crouch as Republican national chairman. The son sympathized from afar, then decided to take his M.B.A. back to Midland, to learn the oil business as a "landman," one who researches mineral and land records...
West of Del Rio, Texas grows dryer by the mile. Tumbleweed bounces across the road and windmills draw up precious water for cattle. On the horizon, dust-shrouded hills appear, blue and mysterious-looking from afar. Roadrunners, heads down and tails up, sprint across the highway. River and road separate here as the Rio Grande, cutting through deep limestone canyons, makes a wide arc that has given this bulge of Texas the nickname Big Bend. Driving south through Alpine and Marfa, I see the border again at Presidio...
...Iran is immediately ready to implement [a U.N.peace] resolution by a cease-fire," Iran'sambassador, Mohammad Ja'afar Mahallati, toldreporters after the meeting...
...Iran is immediately ready to implement [a U.N. peace] resolution by a cease-fire," Iran's ambassador, Mohammed Ja'afar Mahallati, told reporters after the meeting...