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Tuesday morning Ford was to have an audience with Emperor Hirohito, who planned to honor him that evening with a formal banquet at the Imperial Palace. On both Tuesday and Wednesday, Ford and Tanaka expected to spend several hours together at the Akasaka Palace, discussing mutual defense arrangements, trade, relations with Communist China, inflation and the energy crisis. In addition, Tanaka sought a promise that the U.S. would not restrict food sales to Japan in the future, while Ford hoped to receive assurances that the Japanese Diet would ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. After reciprocating with a dinner for Hirohito...
...Lavish Banquet. Kissinger then stopped in Islamabad, where he tried to fend off Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's request for American arms to match the $1 billion worth of military equipment that India has purchased from the Soviet Union since 1960. Kissinger promised Pakistan 100,000 tons of surplus wheat-but no arms. If Bhutto was disappointed, he did not show it. At a lavish banquet he happily toasted Kissinger as a "modern Metternich." On that complimentary note, Kissinger left for Iran to talk with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi about oil prices and the Middle East...
...years ago and settling in Tivoli, he transplanted that gloom to a six-room, rented house that he named "Bleakmoore," evoking echoes of Emily Bronte. But he is by no means a recluse. At least once a month he invites four or five like-minded friends over for a "banquet" of turkey cooked on a 1915-vintage parlor stove, plays the piano (Chopin is his favorite composer) for them or else puts some of his 3,500 Golden Oldie records on the gramophone. A painstaking craftsman who charges up to $1,500 to recondition an old player piano and often...
...McGill professor organized the rugby contest. After the game McGill hosted the Harvard club at a banquet, and gave captain Joel McLafferty a commemorative plaque to present to president...
Display of Unity. Chou's effort to get off his sickbed for the showpiece banquet was the high point of an impressive display of togetherness in Peking. Most of the 21-member Politburo also showed up at the affair. It marked the first time that they have been seen together since the current Politburo was formed 13 months ago. Equally important, some 60 officials whose names had not been mentioned in public since the great purges of the Cultural Revolution took their place alongside such radical firebrands as Madame Mao and her close associate in the Politburo, Yao Wenyuan...