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Goodies on a Tray...
...sophistication, Sadat often uses peasant imagery. Recently he compared the actions of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin during Nasser's funeral to the behavior of the people of his native village. "We are farmers," he said, "and when one of us goes to express condolences, he takes along a tray of food for the house of the deceased out of courtesy. So the Soviet Union came with their tray to the funeral of Gamal." The Russian tray, however, was scarcely filled with food. After post-funeral discussions with Sadat, the Russians accelerated their shipments of military supplies to Egypt. This year...
...plane on the field, a Russian-built Ilyushin-18 and flew off to Peking, attended by a khaki-clad stewardess. When the Americans arrived, Peking was still gripped by winter. The capital's houses appeared bleak brown and gray. Taken to the Hsinchiao Hotel and served a sumptuous tray of cold Chinese hors d'oeuvres, the inexperienced travelers assumed that was their meal. They dug in lustily. When they finished, however, nine other courses followed. "We had food you wouldn't believe," said Connie Sweeris. "Shark-fin soup, century-old eggs, and for dessert soup with...
...fighting liberalized abortion laws. I cannot see how a Christian can take any other position. We who baptize infants and bury the dead with rites of Christian worship cannot possibly stand by while innocent human life is forced from a mother's body, deposited on a surgical tray and burned with common debris in a hospital incinerator...
...that beer tray?" asks Darling. "Milwaukee, 1919. Over there on the closet door, that's an old lumber boat I saw off the coast. And over there, that's a peach tree we used to steal peaches from when we were kids. That's Barcelona, that's an old guy in Genoa, that there's Beirut...