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...Haroun al-Rashid, the Libyan leader likes to disguise himself and take night tours of Tripoli to make sure that Koranic laws are being obeyed. He has personally closed down nightclubs whose acts he thought lewd. Last July he took an incognito look-in at a noisy wiener roast for the teen-age children of U.S. oil-company personnel to make certain that no alcohol was being served and that no Libyans were present...
...back to Peking, his residence in exile since 1970. There, in the guesthouse that Richard Nixon had occupied two weeks earlier, Sihanouk granted an interview to TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. "You can write," said the Prince, as he offered Schecter hors d'oeuvres of duck and roast pork with his chopsticks, "that you were served by a royal, anti-imperialistic head of state." His chief points...
...that for some reason also served food. In 1955, he invested his savings of $3,000 to acquire a nearby winehouse. Refurbishing and a hearty, inexpensive menu kept the eatery full. Jahn's real breakthrough came after a slightly tipsy customer suggested that he feature the kind of roast chicken sold during Munich's Oktoberfest. To cook the birds, Jahn invented a special rotating spit and sold half a chicken for only...
...pints of cream to feed the guests and their legions of attendants. The menu for the main banquet was up to the occasion: quail eggs stuffed with caviar (the only Iranian dish on the menu); a mousse of crayfish tails in Nantua sauce; stuffed rack of roast lamb and, as a main course, a traditional medieval dish: roast peacock stuffed with foie gras. For dessert there was a ring of figs with raspberries in the center, champagne sherbet and mocha coffee. There was also a 33-kg. cake to mark Farah's 33rd birthday, which was last week...
...Cinderella Castle, a multi-turreted, multi-pennoned edifice intended to look like Everyman's Dream of Fairyland and featuring King Stefan's Banquet Hall (a roast beef dinner...