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...passed by, with black men and women dressed as slaves spinning batons and running alongside the float, one well-dressed, slightly inebriated New Orleans citizen was heard to remark, "They really do look like monkeys, don't they?" The remark at first stunned the Harvard visitors, but as the three-day festivities went on and more comments expressing similar attitudes toward New Orleans blacks were heard, the students fancied themselves as anthropologists visiting a foreign land, and the shock subsided. They said that those members of the New Orleans elite, along with the less wealthy participants in Mardi Gras, seemed...
...force people to stay home, Dukakis declared a three-day bank holiday...
Once the Camp David talks ended, Sadat was embarking on a three-day public relations blitz that included a speaking engagement at Washington's National Press Club, a nationally televised interview and a meeting with a group of writers and editors. Sadat also planned to press his case before highly skeptical American Jewish leaders, meet members of the House and Senate Foreign Relations committees, and work in visits with such varied personalities as former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, CIA Director Stansfield Turner and the AFL-CIO's secretary-treasurer Lane Kirkland...
...ticking away north of the U.S. border. What it threatens is the unity and perhaps even the survival of Canada. The bomb comes in the form of a threat by the separatist government of Quebec to seek independence for the country's largest province. Next week, at an extraordinary three-day meeting, Canada's national and provincial leaders will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year-old confederation...
Liberty, unlimited travel on Allegheny Airlines' system, which reaches from Boston to St. Louis. Fares: $149 for seven days, $169 for 14 days and $189 for three weeks. Tickets must be bought a week before takeoff, and a three-day minimum stay is required...