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After a tree-planting ceremony at the embassy followed by a brief lunch with Sir Oliver and Lady Wright, the Ambassador and his wife, who are the official hosts of the royal couple, Charles and Diana went their separate ways. He went to the American Institute of Architects and she, accompanied by Barbara Bush, visit ed the Washington Home, a residence for the elderly and infirm. Inside the striking cement-and-glass A.I. A. headquarters, Charles heard about one of his pet subjects, the revitalization of urban areas. After the round-table discussion, the Prince strolled over to the Octagon...
After a brief stop at the British embassy, where the couple is staying, Charles and Diana entered the ambassador's silver Rolls-Royce bearing Charles' standard and were whisked off to the White House for what was billed as "morning coffee" with the Reagans. The President and First Lady, she in a subdued beige dress and he in a natty blue-and-green plaid blazer, shook hands with the royal couple when they emerged from the car. Nancy dotes on Charles and Diana; they could be her dream children. Inside, over tea, coffee and cinnamon toast, the two couples, surely...
Next stop: lunch at the splendiferous Virginia Hunt Country estate of Philanthropist Paul Mellon, whose father was once Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Mellon's lunch is the smallest of all the charmed circles: fewer than two dozen guests. Later that night the couple's schedule called for a dinner at the British embassy. On Monday the couple was to make their obligatory tour of JCPenney...
...maintained the gentle demeanor of a country doctor while running the state in the "less government is more" tradition, cutting taxes and leaving Indiana with some of the paltriest welfare benefits in the U.S. Reagan appointed him to replace HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler, who was pushed out to become Ambassador to Ireland...
DIED. V.K. (for Vi-Kyun) Wellington Koo, 97, China-born, Columbia-educated politician and diplomat who served the Republic of China as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister (1926-27), Ambassador to the U.S. (1946-56) and vice president of the International Court of Justice at the Hague (1964-67); in New York City. The suave, elegant Koo represented his country at both the Paris peace talks that ended World War I and the 1945 San Francisco conference, where the United Nations was born...