Word: luncheon
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Spokesman Robert Feldkamp said the agent, Enrique Salazar Camarena, "left the DEA office shortly after noon Thursday for a luncheon date with his wife and has not been seen since However, the DEA learned from an eyewitness Sunday that four armed men were seen abducting him and throwing him into a car in Guadalajara," Feldkamp added. "There has been no contact or ransom demand from the suspect kidnappers...
Another highly coveted invitation was a Saturday luncheon given by the Annenbergs. The Reagans not only showed up but also provided the venue: Blair House, the official Government guest quarters. Elsewhere, the capital's reigning power couple, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Wife Liddy, the Secretary of Transportation, presided over a $500-a-head cocktail bash for the new Dole Foundation, which benefits the handicapped. Colorado Brewer Joseph Coors threw a wingding on behalf of a conservative political-action committee; for $1,000 guests got to gamble away complimentary chips aboard the docked riverboat First Lady...
Arrangements for the congressional luncheon following the Inaugural Address featured two innovations. One was the inclusion of the dean of the diplomatic corps, the Soviet Union's longtime Ambassador to Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin. The other was an invitation to six "real people," as Mathias called them, from around the nation. Selected through professional associations, the group includes a truck driver from Alabama, a union official from Maryland, a farmer from Kansas, a fire fighter from Texas and a businesswoman from California. For the sixth, Buffalo Narcotics Agent Joe Petronella, the invitation presented a problem: he specializes in undercover work requiring...
...served penne with smoked salmon to such Reagan buddies as the Walter Annenbergs, the Frank Sinatras, the Charles Wicks, Attorney General and Mrs. William French Smith and the Ed Meeses. Many of the same guests were expected to partake of pasta shells alla carbonara at a White House luncheon for 150 following the Sunday swearing-in ceremony. Pasta primavera was planned for the same crowd at a midnight supper at the Ritz Carlton Hotel after Monday's Inaugural balls...
During the luncheon, Visiting Law School Professor Phillip Alstron questioned whether or not stability would improve the current situation in light of Kim's statement that U.S. support of the current government is a major obstacle to democracy. Alstron, who called current U.S. human rights programs "cosmetic," suggested that instability might be an advantageous in drawing President Reagan's support...