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...political position following a two-month recovery in a clinic and a convalescent center. The 64-year-old leader had started to make a round of high-profile appearances: strolling in the Kremlin, laying ceremonial bricks for a cathedral and praying at an Orthodox Christmas Mass. He even flew to Paris in the midst of the hostage crisis to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand and demonstrate his fitness for office. "I am in perfect health," he told reporters. "I came here so everyone could see I was in perfect form." It was a startling contrast to the TV images...
...their fears, the deMeurerses by now had grown deeply distrustful. They were keenly aware that Christy was dying and that every day wasted was one more day in which the cancer cells in her body could divide and spread. Just hours after their appointment with Dr. McMillan, they flew to Denver; they saw Dr. Roy B. Jones the next...
Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in negotiating the Dayton accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian government to hire MPRI or a competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science Applications International). Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will not begin to flow into Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the Bosnians act swiftly to organize the effort) is expected to begin within a few weeks, perhaps in Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently spoke favorably of MPRI in testimony to Congress and says...
...PRINCESS OF WALES FLEW off to Barbuda last week and, for the brief duration of a winter break, left behind her sons William and Harry, her estranged husband Charles, his mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles--and the stormy issue of royal divorce. In the Caribbean, perhaps, she set her sights on the "clarity" she recently told a TV audience she so desperately wants...
...People flew back, drove back, came back from all over. We were camped out in our common room watching the news. We had five phones in our common room and we were calling Mexico, Puerto Rico, Jordan, everywhere trying to get information and talking with people. It was very emotional," Tessitore said...