Word: podium
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President Clinton, at the central photo-op of his six-country Mideast tour, said today's signing of the treaty between Israel and Jordan made peace in the region "unstoppable." After presiding over the affair with Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- the podium, symbolically, was erected on a former mine field on the two countries' border -- Clinton made a peace offering to uneasy Jordanian Muslims. "We respect Islam," he announced, to loud applause from at least one side of the river Jordan. That appeared to set up his next line, a condemnation of Islamic terrorists...
...bars. "For three years we have suffered," said Michel Jasmine, a member of the crowd. "But God has been good to us; he has given us back Aristide. Now we face a new life." When the President finally appeared, he was dwarfed by the bulletproof shield that surrounded the podium, another sign of how fragile his safety is in this divided society. A dozen U.S. soldiers with binoculars were perched atop the palace, scanning the crowds. Another eight sharpshooters were crouched on the police station across the street. And somewhere in the capital was a top-secret team of Delta...
After that celebrated turn of phrase, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin--who has been seen, of late, pumping the flesh of men of less repute--refused to share a podium with Leibovitz. All this from an octogenarian clad in plaid, with tooth-white hair and a black yarmulke...
Behind the podium on risers were seats for the graduating class, about 100 teenage girls in pristine white dresses (bought specially for the occasion, with great anxiety for my sister and nuisance to her family). They buzzed about like bees waiting for a honeypot...
...soul brother Keanu took a seat at a table at the very back of the courtyard. At the podium, guest speakers who could never hope to grab as much attention as He started to praise and inspire the graduating class with their own humble experiences...