Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yolande Betbeze (1951) recalled to Miss America Chronicler Frank Deford just how silly the year could become. She was sent to Paris with a vial of water from the Hudson River. To symbolize Franco-American friendship, she was to pour it into the Seine. She remembered that "all the damn water ran out of the vial on the plane over, and I had to refill it with water from the faucet in my hotel...
...enough, spotlighting the young doctor Eduardo Plarr (Richard Gere), as he struts his way through a small Argentine town near the Paraguay border. The handsome drifter, Plarr is half English, half Paraguyan and not quite anything. Although he'd rather keep to himself, he gets thrown into an inadvertant friendship with the English consul Charlie Fortnum (Michael Caine), and entangled by the demands of two old friends, now Paraguayan revolutionaries, who pressure him to help them kidnap a visiting American dignitary. Playing on Parr's apparent feeling for his father, a political prisoner in Paraguay, the two convince...
...Filipino President that he would have gone ahead with the visit if it were not for a "problem with Congress." Adding more verbal saliva to Marcos' bootstraps, Reagan wrote that he was looking forward to meeting with Marcos "when a mutually acceptable date can be set" and that "our friendship for you remains as warm as ever...
...Since it is really very difficult to answer personally so many letters after the Olympic Games in Montreal, let me tell you here how grateful I am to you all for your friendship. I wish you all good health, happiness and peace in the coming new year...
Today the two couples no longer speak. Their friendship has been rent by a bitter three-month-old strike against Phelps Dodge that has divided friends and kin throughout Morenci, Clifton and a string of other copper company towns in southern Arizona...