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...devil of sorts, according to Greene, is General Omar Torrijos, Panama's strong-man president. (He overthrew a 60-year-old oligarchy in 1968, and has slowly begun to bring socialist reforms to the impoverished countryside...
Dancing girls balancing lighted candelabra gaily preceded the bridal couple into a large tent after the wedding of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's youngest daughter, Jihan, 16, and Engineer Mahmud Osman, 26. Inside, the newlyweds settled down with Omar Sharif and 1,000 other wedding guests to watch an eight-hour music and comedy show. At that, the reception was an austerity model, in deference to Egypt's economic problems. The entertainers, including an ample belly dancer, donated their services. And the father of the bride cut costs by serving the guests only a light snack of canap...
...like a scene out of a Graham Greene novel: a Central-American strongman and an Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing. The strongman, Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, noted that both their fathers had been teachers, and that he had left his family at 17. The Briton, Author Greene himself, mused between sips of rum punch: "You should thank God you did escape from home, because if you hadn't you might be an intellectual today." Greene quickly added: "I am not, because to be an intellectual is rather academic. A creative writer...
...After retired Army General Omar Actis was murdered by terrorists two months ago, the bodies of 30 suspected guerrillas were found near the town of Pilar in Buenos Aires province. Residents of the area said they had heard shooting and an explosion in the night. The bodies had all been dynamited, apparently to hamper identification. The government promised "an exhaustive and profound investigation," but nothing has happened...
...within 60 Boylston street itself, the interaction between administrators and administered is missing the anonymity of a real bureaucracy. Many of the people who work there are former athletes themselves--just "a bunch of overgrown football players," as Omar Fleischaker '78, a manager of the football team, says. "You always sit down and talk about sports for ten minutes or so before you even think about getting down to business...