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Along with the press corps went two sets of camera crews from the White House. One was the Navy videotapers who customarily record presidential travels for the archives. The other was from the Republican National Committee. At the Emperor's dinner for the Reagans in Tokyo, there was not room for both crews; the Navy was excluded while the Republicans got in. Space was so tight at the North Korean border that most of the regular press corps had to be left behind at a camp below, but the Republican camera crew was assigned a choice position. When these...
...Reagans dined last week with Japanese Emperor Hirohito at a glittering affair in his Imperial Palace, and with U.S. troops at a field kitchen in South Korea's Demilitarized Zone. They were entertained at a tea ceremony and a yabusame exhibition of mounted archery by riders arrayed in samurai costume. The President essayed a line in the Japanese language during a speech to the Tokyo Diet; First Lady Nancy Reagan visited a Japanese grade school and delighted the youngsters by scrawling the Japanese character for "friend...
...says the manuscript was "botched" in the first go at this 300 years ago--particularly in the identification of the emperor, and not a ghost-writer, as its author...
Conversely, says the professor of Byzantine History and Literature, "When an emperor writes a text in the 10th century, everyone thinks he is the author...
...matter of fact, for more than 300 years, Sevcenko says, scholars have generally thought that a 10th-century manuscript chronicling the life of Basil, a ninth-century Byzantine emperor, was written by the ruler's grandson, the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus...