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What is different about Gorbachev is his ability to steer away from political cant when talking with Westerners. He is also able to mask his feelings when the occasion calls for it. When French President Francois Mitterrand mentioned Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov during a state banquet in the Kremlin last June, Konstantin Chernenko and Andrei Gromyko looked annoyed, but Gorbachev betrayed no emotion. "He has great control," said a French diplomat. "He was the only one who did not show anything...
Welcoming Ormandy to Philadelphia, Stokowski told a banquet audience, "Of course, you must not make comparisons. Comparisons in art should never be made." He probably meant the advice invidiously, but Ormandy's career proved the truth of those words. His achievement is writ large in Philadelphia, and no comparison is necessary...
Other functions of the Varsity Club include dinners during the year to honor athletes and a banquet the Wednesday before graduation where the major awards are given out. And this year, for the first time, the club will pay for each member's Harvard letter sweater...
Despite these diverging views, Fahd and Reagan hit it off personally during three meetings, one of them with only a translator present, and at a lavish state banquet at the White House. They had no trouble agreeing on the need to keep pressure on the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and support efforts to end the Iran-Iraq war. Reagan avoided substantive matters in his banquet remarks (they were not a toast, since the Muslim guests of honor were not served wine), concentrating instead on Fahd's well-known passion for soccer...
...head-table occupant who attracted the most attention at a state banquet in Damascus last week was neither the guest of honor, French President François Mitterrand, nor the host, Syrian President Hafez Assad. Instead, it was Assad's younger brother Rifaat, 47, one of Syria's three Vice Presidents, making his first appearance after returning from a mysterious six-month exile in Switzerland and France. Rifaat's sudden re-emergence seemed to indicate that he might soon resume his public duties, which include overseeing Syria's state security apparatus, and that he might attain...