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...Walker in Hong Kong in August 1977, at the same time that the Constellation, with Whitworth on it, stopped there. About a year later, Whitworth was a chief radioman aboard the supply ship Niagara Falls when it made a visit to the Philippines; once again Walker was there to greet him. Walker's travel notes, the FBI contends, show that on both these trips Walker met a Soviet contact...
...ground . . ." So runs last week's fifth- most-popular song on Holland's hit parade. The mild piece of satire contains a punster's slap at Pope John Paul II: popie jopie is a Dutch expression meaning obnoxious. The song is but one indication of the hostility that will greet the Pontiff when he arrives in the Netherlands on Saturday for a four-day visit. More disturbing are the threats of violence. Dutch authorities have mobilized 12,000 police for what will be the country's biggest and most costly security operation. In Amsterdam, police have already arrested two young...
Some 200 people--including operafans, autograph hounds and even a Beverly Sills look-alike-turned out Saturday to greet the retired opera queen as she came to the Coop to hawk her autobiography and a new set of records...
...well have had good reasons for his absence, and perhaps he genuinely could not have rearranged his busy schedule to make an appearance during Thursday's events, even ever night to greet the members of the encampment. It is not the place of protesters to set President Bok's daily agenda. However, larger questions remain about the president's public role in the divestiture debate. There is no doubt that the president has forthrightly and repeatedly made public the grounds of his opposition to divestiture-mostly through the issuance of several open letters on the subject...
...local authorities ("a talisman of medieval- looking splendour"), the Englishmen persevere--and suffer as advertised. Insects attack them everywhere ("I covered myself in SAS anti-fungus powder until my erogenous zone looked like meat chunks rolled in flour"), hordes of leeches rush across the jungle floor to greet them, and cicadas, "megaphones built into their bodies," keep up a decibel level "way over the limit allowed in discotheques...