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After two hours of this, the parties abandoned business to walk in the secluded rear garden and exchange small talk. The Vietnamese served cha gio, snacks of fish covered with thin rice wafers and dipped in the inevitable fermented fish oil, nuoc mam. Withdrawing to discuss the U.S. position among themselves, the Communists then returned to talk seriously, but often ambiguously, for another two hours. They kept complaining that the Americans simply did not understand their position. Says Kissinger: "They behaved correctly. Their personal behavior was impeccable, and I have great respect for them as individuals. They were tough, tenacious...
Falling into the carnival spirit, a crowd chanting "Mobutu, cha, cha, cha!" promptly tore down a statue of King Leopold II of the Belgians. Then they toppled a bronze statue of Explorer Stanley, which stood on a hill once named for him but now called Mount Ngaliema. On hand for the festivities was Foreign Minister Mario Cardoso, who these days is known as Mario-Philippe Losende. Like other Zaïrians who had foreign fathers, he was obliged by law to take the name of his African mother...
Cornell morning last year brought snow to Cambridge. And while the Harvard band had snowball wars and burned its music in open trans cans for heat, the Cornell band sat in the Stadium playing scales to keep its instruments warm. Halftime came, with more cha-cha dances while the Big Red band marched from a map of the United States into a perfect replication of the web of a Black widow spider...
...Richard Goldstein once put it, when everybody under 20 seemed to be searching for the "perfect wave." Along with hot-rods and sports cars, surfboards had become both means and metaphor for the new, rootless mobility of the American young. In Southern California especially, sunning, surfing, chasing chicks, gobbling Cha-Cha burgers, even watching TV became life values worth celebrating...
Before three minutes had passed in the first half, Cha-lie Thomas, one of the Crimson's two attack men, had scored the first of his two goals with Chris Ferner assisting...