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HONG KONG'S GOVERNOR, CHRIS PATTEN, HAS learned that he does not have to go to China to be snubbed. A week after his chilly sojourn in Beijing, Patten was stood up by a retired Chinese official who abruptly bowed out of a long- standing luncheon appointment at Government House. Meanwhile, pro-Beijing newspapers in the colony kept up their fusillade of ad hominem attacks on Patten, joined even by moderate members of Hong Kong's skittish business community...
...internal bank document written in Italian and slipped under Cook's hotel room door last week. The document is an executive summary of meetings between bank executives, Italian government officials and representatives of the U.S. government held in Washington in the spring of 1990, including a White House luncheon attended by Italian Ambassador Rinaldo Petrignani and Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. If the document proves authentic, score one for Drogoul's claims of a Bush Administration cover-up of its role in providing loans to Iraq just before the Gulf...
...became Prime Minister again; Gorbachev too may dream of political resurrection. He was in the midst of a 13-day speaking tour of the U.S., trying to raise $3 million for his new think tank in Moscow. At an earlier stop last week, Ronald Reagan was host at a luncheon near Los Angeles in Gorbachev's honor. Ticket price...
...still be working on my acting on my death bed, practicing my last words," he told the audience at a luncheon before the reception. Julia mimicked an earnest invalid: "How do I look, do I look too pale...
...before the House Ways and Means - Committee last week, Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman suggested that Bush would be willing to break the budget agreement to give the economy a shot in the arm by lowering taxes for the middle class. But when the hearings resumed after a luncheon break, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, leader of the Adminstration's "do as little as possible" faction, differed with his colleagues, claiming that breaking the budget agreement would cause interest rates to soar...