Word: vip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope's five-nation tour. While John Paul did not kiss the ground at the airport, as is his custom on first visiting a country, he spent two hours with Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, who greeted him and led him through throngs of astonished passengers to the VIP lounge...
...Dukakis would fill a few of his top foreign affairs posts from the K-School faculty--tapping in particular the military expertise of departing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 and Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. During the Democratic Convention Allison could be seen in a VIP box mingling with political heavyweights...
...Dukakis would fill a few of his top foreign affairs posts from the K-School faculty--tapping in particular the military expertise of departing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 and Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. During the Democratic Convention Allison could be seen in a VIP box mingling with political heavy weights...
...FINE IF YOU COULD READ LIPS. New Orleans' great flying saucer of a building was less Superdome than Superdrone. The cavernous arena seemed to swallow up the voices of the speakers. On opening night, crusty former Senator Barry Goldwater, seated in the VIP box, was cussing and complaining that no one could hear what was being said. Some delegates actually left the arena to listen to the convention on television. According to a New Orleans official, Ed McNeill, the National Education Association met in the Dome before the Republicans did and offered to split the cost of the sound system...
Black delegates at the Republican Convention were about as common as photographers for Reader's Digest. Less than 3% of the delegates were black. But while black faces were rare on the Superdome floor, a conspicuously high number turned up on the podium or in the VIP box: Muhammad Ali, former Transportation Secretary William Coleman, and Fred Brown, chairman of the National Black Republican council...