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While Ellis was seeking out investors, Blay-Miezah was living overseas, having fled the U.S. in 1974 after he was charged with trying to cash $250,000 worth of stolen cashier's checks. But the Ghanaian was always willing to greet his American benefactors at the posh offices or hotel suites he had set up with their money in London, Amsterdam and Accra. "I can't live like a pauper," he told one investor. "I have to impress my people...
Last week, looking fit, Deng reappeared in Peking to greet visiting Danish Premier Poul Schluter. Western diplomats still believe that Deng has been under medical care. The Chinese leader would only say that his long absence was designed "to show that the current policies in China do not hinge on myself alone" and that he is thinking about when to retire completely...
...Dobrynin, 66, now headed for the top ranks of Moscow's ruling elite, was both the front and back door of superpower confrontations. As dean of the diplomatic corps, he stood shoulder to shoulder with U.S. Presidents to greet visiting heads of state at the White House. As Henry Kissinger's intimate, he sat time and time again by a crackling fire in the White House Map Room, where Franklin Roosevelt planned World War II, to worry through Soviet-U.S. frictions. He was, in Kissinger's view, the best barometer of the Kremlin's mood. His soundings of American...
This confusion in their relationship provides fuel for some rather amusing scenes. When they first meet, Jason thinks Phoebe is the masseur and greets her naked without a second thought. She, meeting her idol for the first time, takes some time before letting Jason know that she has not come to rub him down. When he finds out, he embarassingly says, "I don't normally greet people in the buff...
...shirts emblazoned with CORY. Car horns honked in chorus. Occasional placards bobbed and dipped in the crowd. REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD, read one. JUST LIBERATED, read another. As cars crawled along teeming Ayala Avenue, men, women and children, priests, nuns and soldiers stopped to greet each other with a salutation that somehow captured the moment: "Happy New Year...