Word: honorably
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...receiving Huang and Chinese official Shen Jueren at the White House, and for delivering the Vice President three days later to a Los Angeles event. Democratic sources tell TIME that on Sept. 27, 1993, Gore dropped by an intimate gathering of Asian Americans organized by Huang. His guest of honor: Shen Jueren, the head of China Resources, a huge trading company wholly owned by the Chinese government, with intelligence-gathering functions and strong financial ties to Lippo...
...veteran air force pilot, a graduate of the three-year Gagarin academy at Star City and a cosmonaut with 10 years' experience. In 1993 and 1994 he spent 197 days on the Mir station and completed five space walks. When he returned, he was awarded the country's highest honor: Hero of Russia. He also learned that his sister had died while he was aloft. In a melancholy coincidence, he will be told when he lands this time that his stepfather has died, news that has been kept from him. But another Hero medal, says his wife...
Being quite a provincial foreigner, however, he does not reckon with the power of American pragmatism. Having eluded the invaders, the President (who, we are informed, won a Congressional Medal of Honor piloting a rescue chopper in Vietnam) is stalking the surprisingly capacious byways of the plane, armed mainly with native wit and a "Don't tread on me" philosophy. There is good--sometimes witty--suspense in Marshall's single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools--a table knife, a cell phone...
...word was that a visit was tentative. In the end, Albright decided it was best to repair the breach. The two women had a private breakfast in Albright's hotel the morning after she arrived, and later, when Czech President VACLAV HAVEL presented Albright with the country's highest honor at Hradcany Castle, Simova was seated front and center, wiping tears from her eyes. But Albright did not invite Simova to tour the Old Jewish Cemetery and the Pinkas Synagogue with her, even though they share more than a dozen relatives whose names are among the 77,297 Holocaust victims...
...honor of the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine, Mary T. Robinson, president of Ireland, dedicated the first memorial in the United States to the event at Cambridge Common on Wednesday...