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...worry about it," said Hughes. "This plane isn't going to go anywhere until I'm ready." [Later Ambassador Shelton told the press:] "His hair was cut short like he used to wear it. He shook hands with both of us, and had a firm handshake. It is absolutely nonsense what has been printed about his nails being as long as Fu Manchu's. His fingernails were as well manicured as yours or mine...
...When they arrived at the Moslem leftist stronghold of Aley, the highest-ranking commander of the Palestine Liberation Organization there leapt out of his Land Rover to greet his Syrian counterpart. They saluted formally, shook hands, embraced and finally kissed. Everyone was smiling. In the car on the way back to Beirut, the Palestinian commander said: 'I wish they had done this from the beginning, moving into both sides. I hope they never leave Lebanon.' The Syrians, however, were received coolly in Christian areas. At Jounieh civilians on the roadside looked grim, and two militiamen standing with their...
...distinction in the Royal Navy, he again took up the cause of Irish liberty. Childers, in fact, pressed so hard for total Irish independence after the Free State compromise that he became an embarrassment to the Irish patriots and was done away with by the I.R.A. itself. Yet he shook hands with each of his executioners and, before his death, made his 16-year-old son promise to seek out and shake the hand of each man who had signed his death warrant. The son, Erskine Hamilton Childers, eventually became President of the Free State...
...women had originally gone to Turf Lodge to condemn British army brutality. "I do not want any army on our streets," Williams told reporters after the mobbing. "These people in Turf Lodge have been under terrible pressure from the British army for the past three weeks." That explanation immediately shook the fragile alliance that Williams and Corrigan had formed with moderate Protestants. Further clarifications, in which the women affirmed their support of the army and Royal Ulster Constabulary as legitimate instruments of law, may cost their movement some Catholic support...
...begins at one of his rallies, Tennessee Republican Senator Bill Brock appears to be mildly annoyed at all the noise. James Sasser, the Democrat who hopes to unseat Brock, joyfully picks up the beat by stomping his foot. When the rivals appeared recently at the Dyer County Fair, Brock shook a few hands, then disappeared, without taking a single ride, before most fairgoers were even aware he had been there. Grinning broadly, the shirtsleeved Sasser eagerly took over, leaving scarcely a hand unshaken, delivering a rip-roaring speech-and getting down on his knees to play with the kids. Sasser...