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...sense of ceremony, even the awkward pas de deux, at the end, summed up perfectly all that had gone before, as well as apprehensions for what was to come. In a red-carpeted chamber of Peking's Great Hall of the People, the British Ambassador to China, Sir Richard Evans, sat at one end of a long table covered with a green-tasseled cloth. At the other end sat Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Nan. Behind them, the 50 or so officials from both countries, who had endured 22 rounds and 24 months of serpentine negotiation, stood stiffly...
Finally, last April, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe officially announced that Britain would have to surrender administration, but remained determined to fix terms whereby its colony could continue flourishing in the freewheeling style to which it was accustomed. That move prompted the Chinese for the first time to agree to address specific issues, and in June a "joint working group" began to thrash out the details...
...19th century outfits and funeral head wrappings. The hands of one of the corpses, says Beattie, are long and delicate, like a pianist's. Petty Officer John Torrington, 20, left, Able Seaman John Hartnell, 25, and Royal Marine William Braine, 34, died after the two ships of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage were trapped by thick ice near Canada's remote Beechey Island. Over the next year, the 129 men on board struggled to survive, setting up a supply shop and smithy on the frozen tundra, but all eventually...
...meeting of the Central Committee. Dan Schorr was a CBS correspondent and he said to Khrushchev, Mr. Khrushchev, I want to go on holiday, but my office won't let me go because there's a rumor of a meeting of the Central Committee Could you tell me sir--this is not for a story--I just want to know if I can go on holiday...
...said 'Thank you very much sir, I really appreciate that, thank you ever so much,' and started walking away, thinking he had a big story...