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...sumptuous lounge at Riyadh International Airport last week and awaited their royal guests. One by one, special jetliners landed, carrying the rulers of the five Persian Gulf nations that, along with Saudi Arabia, constitute the Gulf Cooperation Council (G.C.C.).* Fahd and Abdullah emerged onto the shimmering tarmac to greet each arriving sheik and sultan, then escorted him in to meet the King. While white-robed Saudi national guardsmen, armed with machine guns and golden daggers, looked on, the rulers exchanged embraces and sipped cups of hot, aromatic coffee before being whisked off by limousines to their luxurious suites...
...leaders flew into Cancún airport, each one arriving about half an hour apart so López Portillo could welcome them individually. Heat hung over the airport like a suffocating cloud; the temperature on the tarmac approached 100°. Dressed in long-sleeved uniforms with helmets and combat boots, several hundred presidential guardsmen stood on the steaming runway all day to greet the dignitaries. One young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair...
Galatia (pop. 1,023) sits alongside the two-lane tarmac of Highway 34 in Southern Illinois like hips on a snake. Barely. There is a cluster of neat single-story frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time...
There were no photographers on hand when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stepped onto the tarmac at Warsaw's Okecie Airport last week. The official Polish press agency reported only that "high party officials" had been there to greet the distinguished visitor. The low-key arrival of one of the Kremlin's most powerful leaders, a man widely regarded as a pragmatist rather than a hard-lining ideologue, was seen as a reassuring sign by many Poles. Said one Warsaw journalist: "It means that the Soviets are prepared to accept what we are doing as long...
...keeping with an almost sinister Government tendency to treat the war as an elaborate bureaucratic illusion, the military shipped people out alone and brought them back alone. The process caused surreal dislocations: one day in a firefight in I Corps, the next day standing on the American tarmac somewhere, as if nothing had happened. One veteran remembers the awful solitude of homecoming: "They let us off on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. I had to hitchhike to the San Francisco airport because of a transit strike." The Americans who fought in Viet Nam responded when their country asked...