Word: vips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bundled against the Canadian chill, Britain's "Minister for Europe," Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, flew into Ottawa last week to batten down some Commonwealth hatches before Britain sails into the European Common Market. After the usual pleasantries in the airport VIP lounge, a newsman pushed a microphone at Heath: "Just say that you've come to assuage Canadian anxiety...
...Gallic logic. Ben Khedda was shunted to a minor Cabinet post, and became the first F.L.N. dignitary to lead an official mission to Red China. After touring other Communist countries as an ambassador at large, he turned up as a persuasive F.L.N. propagandist in Latin America, and received a VIP welcome from Cuba's Fidel Castro...
Unknown to Cadon, Flight 501 had a VIP aboard. Colombia's Foreign Minister Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala had been in Mexico, was on a tour of Latin American capitals to unify opposition to Castro's Cuban Communism. The Colombian government snapped off a demand for the immediate release of its foreign minister, said that any other action would be "an official act of hostility...
...only trace of the vanished VIP was the cops' black Ford itself. Somewhat battered, it was found on the road 45 miles from the scene of the escape. Perhaps, suggested the Katangese, Lumumba was trudging through the bush in the hope of reaching Bukamu, a Katanga town held by the pro-Lumumba rebels. But this was 200 miles away, a tough week's walk for a city lad like Lumumba...
...their own rule, they ask no questions. For them, all questions have been answered; they are happy, childlike men busy with their assignment, whether it is Mass, plumbing, electrical repairs, moral theology, or the grisly business of lepers' laundry. They could not care less about entertaining a VIP, and Querry might live unhappily ever after, driving the mission truck or designing the cheapest possible hospital, but for the intrusion of the world...