Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotel was in charge of buying, preparing and serving the food, but the Reagans chose the menu. In another untraditional move, they decided to treat their guests to a "typically American" meal: turkey and all the trimmings. White House advance teams held three full-scale tasting sessions, sending snapshots of the food and formal place settings back to Nancy Reagan for approval...
Gray has produced results for many clients, including the government of Turkey, which has little support in Congress. The powerful Greek lobby was determined to trim back Turkey's military aid last year, but Gray sent Lobbyist Gary Hymel, a former top aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill, to work on House leaders. Martin Gold, former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, was sent by Gray to deal with Republican leaders in the Senate. Turkey ended up getting more military aid out of Congress than the year before...
...presidential couple will be staying. The Reagans will reside in a renovated villa, complete with indoor garden and an imposing replica of a Ming dynasty dragon bed with a pillared canopy. The Americans will give their own spread: 600 guests at the Great Wall Hotel for roast tom turkey, accompanied by seafood mousse and praline ice cream. About 220 lbs. of frozen poultry were flown to Peking two weeks ago, but the Reagans will personally bring the wine (390 bottles of California's finest reds, whites and champagnes...
...Delta used to be the site of "turkey shooting"--a rather arcane pastime involving actual shooting of the fowl--and other popular games...
...NATO allies had been caught off-guard by the Soviet maneuvers. The Supreme Commander of NATO Atlantic forces, Admiral Wesley McDonald, said he had been "very impressed" by the size of the Soviet fleet, and called for an upgrading of Western defenses in the region. During a trip to Turkey for a NATO meeting, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger denied that the alliance had been unprepared for the Soviet maneuvers, although Defense Department Spokesman Michael Burch later conceded that "perhaps the size of the exercise was somewhat unexpected...