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Since the inaugural run, which was sped on its way by a 25-man band of the Coldstream Guards, the passenger list has included English lords and ladies, showbiz aristocrats and crowned heads of industry. One passenger this summer was Actor Sidney Poitier, with his 30 pieces of luggage. On a trip from Venice to Paris, a group of 14 Arabs celebrated the birthday of a Saudi princess; the Dom Perignon gushed like crude...
...Obie sped back to Washington on the Concorde last weekend, George Shultz began readjusting to the role of public power. He was given the honor of being the last to board the plane, waiting until even Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga had been seated. Two camera crews stumbled in the aisles as the chunky man with the healthy California tan took his place. And on the 3½-hr. flight, he conducted impromptu diplomacy, listening as Seaga urged faster progress on Reagan's plan for aid to the Caribbean Basin...
...Force One landed at Orly Airport near Paris a few minutes before midnight on a rainy Wednesday. Nancy held an umbrella over the President as they trod a soggy red carpet, to be greeted by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. It was not a night for ceremony. The Reagans sped off to the residence of U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith to recuperate from jet lag and prepare for the first serious task: cementing Reagan's friendship with French President François Mitterrand, his host at the Versailles summit...
Because of the tight security, it was almost the only occasion that enabled the French public to get a glimpse of Reagan. He waved through the tinted glass of his Lincoln at a crowd of 2,000 lining the Avenue Victoria as his motorcade sped away from the meeting with Chirac. One reason for the heavy precautions: that morning a bomb had exploded at the American School of Paris, located in the suburb of Saint-Cloud. There were no injuries. On the school's wall was inscribed the legend ACTION DIRECTE, the name of an outlawed ultraleft organization...
...Desert, gusting through communities south of Los Angeles at speeds topping 60 m.p.h. In Anaheim, just before dawn, the high winds blew down a power line, setting the fronds of a palm tree afire. Sparks showered onto the dry wooden shingles of a nearby rooftop, which exploded into flames. Sped by the winds, the sparks leaped from roof to roof, from street to street. For three hours, the fire raged out of control as residents in a four-block area of apartment complexes scrambled out of its path and fire-fighting units from neighboring towns helped battle the blaze...