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...Three years later he again intervened for Brit ain, this time in Libya, where four British citizens had been jailed, unwitting pawns in an ugly political duel between the governments in London and Tripoli. Following a Christmas Day meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan strongman's Bedouin tent, the Britons were freed. In September 1985 Waite played a still unspecified role in the release of a U.S. hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, who had been held for 16 months in Lebanon...
...know how he felt. When the invitation to the ball came last summer, I snorted a contemputous snort and tossed it. But when it became obvious that everyone and his accountant was going to be underneath that big yellow tent on Saturday night, I knew I had to go. Despite pulling every string God gave me, I still couldn't buy a pair of tickets until Thursday. A good friend of mine made two dozen photocopies of the ball tickets and handed them out free to whoever wanted them as "a political statement against elitism," but I heard about...
Inside the tent, we discovered that not only did we not know anybody, but it was a cash bar. Several bartenders would sell you drinks for a buck cash instead of the two-fifty drink tickets, but once again, I missed...
...SPENT ALMOST an hour just drinking and checking out the three tents and the Science Center. Then we danced at the western end of the tent. Or tried to, at any rate. For most of the people there, "oldies dance music" means Mowtown, and most of the moves I saw were circa "Saturday Night Fever" instead of "Stomping at the Savoy," which didn't quite cut it. But even if you knew what to do, Lester Lanvine and his Hat Throwing Orchestra changed songs every three minutes, and they played the same damn songs over and over. By the ninth...
...drank some more vodka and the feeling passed. I wandered to the disco tent where I recall dancing to something called "I Wanna be Bill Cosby." Then I dragged myself back to the Science Center, where there was huge line of of men and women waiting to go to the men's room...