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Amid the furor over Ronald Pelton's betrayal, the OSS veterans gathered for a festive 25th annual banquet that provided a mite of moral support to Administration efforts to bolster the nation's intelligence apparatus. The banqueters warmly applauded when Reagan pledged to do just that, and nobody there had any trouble seconding the President's praise of CIA Director William Casey as "one of the heroes of America's fight for freedom." After all, Bill Casey was one of them; from the OSS office in London, he had helped direct the deployment of agents behind enemy lines. Still...
...sport has been taking off, with Steele riding gorgeously on the crest. In training for the past seven years, Steele, 25, is the only female member of the U.S. boardsailing team and is ranked fourth in the nation. Last week at the Women's Sports Foundation's awards banquet in San Francisco, Steele was honored as one of ten up-and-coming women athletes. She appreciates the recognition, but would trade her banquet seat anytime for another 20-mile sailboard cruise down Chesapeake Bay like the one she recently took with Husband Scott. Says Steele: "Now that was a kick...
While the Friends of Crew frequently aided the women's crew program before 1981, the process of actually bringing women onto the management committee was a slow one. In the annual awards banquet sponsored by the friends, "there wasn't even the question of inviting women to the dinner" in 1960, Bancroft says. In the mid-60s, only wives were allowed to attend the festivities while later in the decade rowers were allowed to be accompanied by "credited females," which meant a girlfriend of wife...
...France's new conservative government, Premier Jacques Chirac has left no doubt about where he stands on major issues. But where does Chirac sit? For most of last week, protocol experts were trying to determine whether Chirac or President Francois Mitterrand should occupy France's seat at the opening banquet in Tokyo next month, along with President Ronald Reagan and five other leaders of the world's major industrialized countries. Both Chirac, the head of government, and Mitterrand, the head of state, will be attending the Tokyo meeting...
After much tugging of chairs, the President appears to have won. Chirac's office announced that his work load made it impossible for him to fly to Tokyo in time to attend the banquet. Instead, he will arrive in Japan the next morning. Mitterrand will be the man who comes to dinner...