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...half-expected a general's braided visor, the dark glasses and cruel lips seen on all the anti-junta posters from Sweden to Berkeley. "You can see I am not so horrible," said Pinochet, "that I don't eat babies." In an anteroom outside his office, a memorable scene: 22 generals of the Chilean army were waiting to be called in, one by one, to hear whether they would be promoted, retired, or held in place another year. Perhaps Pinochet would slip into uniform for those sessions...
...recommend a general election, Sir John handed him a terse, four-paragraph letter stating: "I hereby determine [withdraw] your appointment as head of government [and] the appointments of all the ministers in your cabinet." The Governor General then received Fraser, who had been waiting -unknown to Whitlam-in an anteroom. After agreeing that he would not institute new policies or dismiss government officials, Fraser was directed by Kerr to form a caretaker Cabinet that will govern until the elections...
Arrupe requested a meeting, which was held last month in Paul's private library. While Arrupe's first assistant waited in an anteroom, the Superior General entered the library to find seated with the Pontiff Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, the No. 2 man at the Secretariat of State, where hostility to the Jesuits often runs high. The Pope was warm but firm. Arrupe's responsibility, he insisted, was to reimpose discipline and respect for tradition and persuade the increasingly egalitarian Jesuits not to change the structure of their order. Paul's message to the Jesuits: enough innovation...
Schroder's office is a sort of anteroom to her boss's; it opens onto a hallway in the modern building where she works, and her boss's office is through a door next to her desk. The room where Schroder works is neat and streamlined, with a picture window and various office accoutrements--a typewriter, filing cabinets, books, a phone. Schroder is making instant coffee from a plug-in pot, without a great deal of assurance. "See," she says, laughing, "I'm not one of those secretaries who makes coffee any more...
Gutted Mosque. "In an anteroom of the old government house, Mohammed Mahmoud and his wife Ayesha, a couple in their 60s, sit quietly while a clerk checks their documents to be sure they are eligible to come back home. The yellow, tattered papers prove that until five years before, they had lived on a little farm just outside Suez. The clerk makes out a form giving Mahmoud permission to return to his farm, and he 'signs' it with a seal engraved on a ring...