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Most of the men who shaped the postwar world are gone-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle. This week, barring a last-minute change in plans, a VIP helicopter will touch down on the south lawn of the White House and out will step a statesman who has earned a place alongside those formidable figures: President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia...
...decisions. The press is firmly controlled, and criticism of the Shah is wholly forbidden. For the celebrations, the army clamped tight security around a 60-mile circumference of the tent city and, by ironic coincidence, arrested exactly 2,500 potential troublemakers. Iran's security police, SAVAK, tracked each VIP electronically via a small radio transmitter carried by an aide of the guest...
...more compelling impression is that of a VIP who feels it beneath his dignity to display any warmth for or interest in ordinary people. For six days, Agnew enjoyed the plush appointments of Seoul's Chosun Hotel, emerging only for ceremonial functions or to play golf and tennis. One day when it rained, he ordered a Ping Pong table sent up to his room. He visited no American soldiers, Korean hospitals, schools, marketplaces or housing projects. In Singapore, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia, the routine was essentially the same. In Kenya, Agnew visited the Treetops wild-game preserve, conferred...
...Minister Wei Tao-ming, 72, a Paris-educated lawyer and wartime Ambassador to the U.S., abruptly decided to retire, citing reasons of health. The "Gimo," who is now 83, has also decided that the Nationalists should press their case via a diplomatic offensive aimed at every trade fair and VIP in sight. First guest, due in Taipei next month: Congolese President Joseph Mobutu...
...those souls whose self-image far transcends any real situation. Whereas Edmund Burke would say, "I must see the things; I must see the men," one gets the impression that Buckley has never cut himself from the invisible umbilical cord that runs through rallies, magazine offices, receptions, VIP functions, and any other situation whose essence is the maintenance of the prejudices it has brought together to reaffirm. He glides along the soft surface of isolated dogmas and brings you back to the bright-minded certitudes when you knew that America was the best country in the world...