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...autocratic regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. But Aquino, 51, feared that he would be turned back or arrested-or worse. So, as his China Airlines Boeing 767 from Taipei approached Manila International Airport, he ducked into a washroom and slipped a bullet-proof vest under the same white safari suit he wore when he left three years earlier. "I'm O.K., I'm protected here," he said as he patted his torso. "But if they hit me in the head, I'm a goner...
...members of Mugabe's ruling ZANU party jeered, Nkomo insisted that he had fled the country in March only after troops loyal to Mugabe had ransacked his house and killed his driver. "I ran away from my grave," declared Nkomo. "I did not leave Zimbabwe for a safari in Europe." While Mugabe listened impassively, Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Eddison Zvobgo berated Nkomo for embarrassing the government, and ridiculed as "old hat" letters that Nkomo had sent from London proposing talks to solve Zimbabwe's internal problems. Then, to the surprise of most of the M.P.s present...
...some ways, Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, 49, was already beginning to look like the Prime Minister he has yearned so long to become. Gone were the open-necked shirts, safari jackets and jeans he had taken to wearing in Parliament in an attempt to project a populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi...
Most museums in Italy and Greece close in midafternoon, just when Americans want to visit them. The pubs in Britain seem to be closed most of the time. All the ice cubes in Europe disappear on a hot day. Driving can occasionally resemble either a safari or a Grand Prix race, depending on whether you are in the countryside of Portugal or on the Autobahnen or autostrade of Germany or Italy. Despite such hazards, few Americans appear unhappy enough to talk of packing up and going home. They can, after all, always try another country...
Kamal's eyes acknowledged a slight pain. Perhaps he was anticipating the familiar adventures in store for them both-the dinner of stuffed sheep's head, the full-dress safari with Bond as the prey, the chase through the bazaar, the fight with the portable buzz saw, the wing-walker aerobatics that would surely end in the Afghan's death. Or was it just a reflex of exquisite boredom on the face of a polo player named Louis Jourdan...