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...that a representative of the group will take part in the talks enhances the P.L.O.'s drive for international respectability. Ever since the P.L.O. was recognized as the "sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people by the Rabat Summit in October 1974-followed a month later by the triumphal appearance at the General Assembly of Yasser Arafat-the P.L.O. has scored impressive diplomatic successes. Its representatives are accepted as de facto "ambassadors" by some 100 countries and international organizations. At his Beirut headquarters Arafat receives a steady stream of visiting VIPs from the West...
...they fell to their knees and prayed outside the outpost, workmen hastily erected a triumphal arch on the previously unmarked boundary; atop it were Moroccan flags and huge portraits of Hassan. After moving into the Sahara in a great human flood a half-mile abreast, the marchers soon narrowed into a column eight to ten people wide and began raggedly shuffling down the single-lane asphalt road in the direction of Aaiūn, Sahara's capital. A huge paratrooper distributed paperback copies of the Koran, which the marchers waved as they chanted, "Allah akbar [God is great...
...apprehension. As head of state during the 1960s, he had exiled, jailed or executed many of the Khmer rebels. But last week the past was officially forgotten-at least temporarily. After more than five years of exile in China, Sihanouk and his wife, Princess Monique, made a triumphal return to Phnom-Penh. Traveling from Peking with the royal family was Deputy Premier Khieu Samphan, who is believed to be the real power in the new Cambodian regime...
...dozen armored personnel carriers and truckloads of green-uniformed troops who wore helmets inscribed TIEN VI SAIGON?Onward to Saigon?swept down Unity Boulevard to the presidential palace. The gates had been left ajar, but one tank, followed by several others, smashed through the fence nonetheless, then fired triumphal salvos. One detachment of troops drove off in a Jeep with Minh to an undisclosed location; later he was brought back to repeat his surrender announcement before being whisked away again...
Ford did not come like a god as Dwight Eisenhower did. There was little of the elegance that John Kennedy exuded in his triumphal march through Paris. There were none of those hilarious outrages which Lyndon Johnson relished, like yahooing in the Taj Mahal, passing out plastic busts of himself or, after viewing some of the best of Germany's modern art, asking if he couldn't pick up a dozen or so cut-rate paintings of beer- hall scenes for his Secret ServiceI agents. Nor was there the board-chairman bearing of Richard Nixon trailed...