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...discord. Diana, far from coming across as the Princess Peabrain that some have called her, was confident and rarely tongue-tied; with that ever so sly, slightly lidded look of hers, she imparted the gentlest hint of irony to the proceedings. The coaching that she received from Gandhi Director Sir Richard Attenborough paid off. Charles even provided a touch of Piccadilly farce by draping a handkerchief over his head to distract Sons William, 3, and Henry, 1, and then mugging like an attenuated version of his great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. The children were amused...
Arafat suffered a different blow to his credibility on Monday in London. There, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the cancellation of a planned meeting between himself and a joint Jordanian-P.L.O. delegation, the first such meeting ever scheduled between P.L.O. representatives and a member of the British government. If the meeting had taken place as planned, it would have given a new measure of authority to the P.L.O. as the legitimate voice for Palestinian interests in the Middle East. Even though Arafat was not one of the P.L.O. representatives invited to attend, the gathering, if successful, would...
...told reporters. "The President said, in essence, I don't care what it takes, I want that plane brought down in friendly territory." Pentagon officials said last week that Weinberger was playing the role of devil's advocate and when Reagan gave the go-ahead, he readily responded, "Yes, sir...
Earlier, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman had warned that in the future, police antiriot squads would be permitted to disperse crowds by firing plastic bullets and using tear gas. Both weapons are employed by British troops stationed in Northern Ireland but have never been used elsewhere in Britain. Said a determined Newman: "Officers deployed in such grave situations look to me for reasonable protection. They must and will have it. Anarchy cannot be allowed to prevail...
...Harvard Hall: After the original Harvard Hall burned down in 1764, the University commissioned a new building from architect Sir Francis Bernard, who was also the Royal Governor. Dawes again built the building which was used as a chapel, lecture hall, dining hall, and library. According to the an architectural history of Cambridge, "The college obtained heroic Copley portraits to decorate the dining hall, making it the only American interior of the time where paintings, frames, and architecture were planned to form a single decorative scheme.... All in all the most sophisticated American college building before Bulfinch...