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...minute appearance, shouts of "no way" and "you didn't lose" died away. Instead, well-wishers patted the candidate on the back, saluted his exit with a chorus of "we want Joe," and in some cases cried as the less loyal pushed their way out of the banquet room...
Kissinger's eighth trip to Peking in four years was thus conducted in a chillier atmosphere than the previous seven. The Americans felt that some Chinese officials were brusque almost to the point of rudeness. At one banquet, Kissinger toasted both Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai, but Foreign Minister Chiao neglected to do the same for President Ford. Observers in Hong Kong believe Kissinger was unnecessarily blunt to the sensitive Chinese...
...first night. After two months of discussion, the Finns decided to ask each delegation to send its four most senior members to the dinner; the ranking member of each delegation will be seated closest to the host and to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at a gigantic C-shaped banquet table. The dinner menu and wine list remained a state secret, at least partly because Kekkonen, under local pressure to serve a Finnish sparkling wine,* was privately determined to offer French champagne...
...extraordinary figure rose to his feet last week in Washington to discuss Soviet-American affairs from his unique perspective. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was making his first major public address since his exile from the Soviet Union 17 months ago. The occasion was a banquet given in his honor...
Empty Pedestals. A parade and a state banquet completed the festivities in the capital, which is expected to be renamed Can Phumo, or "Place of Phumo," after a Shangaan chief who lived in the area before the Portuguese navigator Lourenço Marques founded the city in 1545 and gave his name to it. Most city streets, named for Portuguese heroes or important dates in Portuguese history, will have their names changed soon. Already missing from the capital's broad, flag-festooned boulevards are dozens of statues erected in colonial days to honor such Portuguese explorers...