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VOTA CONNALLY PRESIDENTE read the white polo shirts of the welcomers who had turned out to greet their candidate at his hotel in San Juan. When John Connally arrived on the island the previous night he was wearing blue pinstripes, but this morning he appeared in an embroidered white cotton shirt called a guayabera. Waving and smiling in the blazing sunshine, the candidate bounded onto an orange sightseeing bus, and the seven-vehicle motorcade lurched off toward city hall. As the procession crept along the traffic-snarled Las Americas Expressway, the candidate began booming out "Buenos días" from...
...twenty to four the President still had not arrived. General Spinola had finished his meal, and was anxious to meet the President. Wallraff could only stall for time: he had only learned of Spinola's visit the day before, and had not yet succeeded in finding a 'President' to greet him. The previous night he had approached several friends--a lawyer, a doctor, a publisher, a member of the Bundestag, a vicar and several professional actors--but none would agree to play the role. Now, despite frequent and frantic telephone calls, Wallraff could not find a suitable President. At four...
...escalation of political violence, Soames asked both Mugabe and Nkomo to delay their own arrivals into Salisbury. When the two leaders do return, under heavy security, they are almost certain to arouse huge popular demonstrations. Obviously Soames was not yet prepared to risk the possible hostility that might also greet them...
...executive success, sometimes are Siberian. An executive, whose drafty 26th-floor office commands a splendid view of northern Manhattan and a stretch of the Hudson, sat glaring at her thermometer last week. The reading was 62°, "and that doesn't allow for wind chill." She contemplates rising to greet a visitor and falling flat on her face because she has forgotten to step out of her snuggle sack...
...shower of rose petals, Bassam Shaka'a, 48, freed from prison and reinstated as mayor of the largest town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was hoisted on the shoulders of his Palestinian supporters and carried past garlands of flowers and olive branches into the town hall to greet his family. Smiling broadly, the mayor thanked his constituents for the hero's welcome. "I owe you my freedom, and from now on I am yours," he told them. "Victory to the fedayeen!" the crowd responded, raising their hands in the V sign of victory...