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...Representatives voted to cut off all military aid unless President Nixon declared that it was necessary to U.S. interests. While Nixon pondered that prospect-the Senate has yet to act on the proposal-Colonel Papadopoulos, now Premier, spoke bitterly about American criticism of a faithful NATO ally. Spiro Agnew still wanted to visit the homeland...
Finally, he did-thus becoming the first top-ranking Western leader to set foot in Greece since the 1967 coup. Officially, there was to be no endorsement of the junta, just a discussion of "NATO matters." Unofficially, Agnew would visit his ancestral home as a private citizen. But when his olive-drab helicopter settled down at Gargalianoi (pop. 6,200), one day last week, Agnew saw the streets lined with some 60,000 cheering peasants who had come on foot and by donkey and chartered bus from miles around. At Agnew's side, his head reaching only to Agnew...
...Agnew spoke emotionally of his return. His voice cracking slightly, he greeted the townspeople in the name of his late father. "At his knee I learned of this town and of the principles of the ancient Hellenes." He was greeted, in turn, by his father's cousin, Andreas Anagnostopoulos, 59, who still lives in the family house and who stood on tiptoe to kiss his relative on both cheeks...
Smith achieved a certain amount of publicity last year, when in the middle of Spiro Agnew's speech at a Boston Republican dinner, he stood up (because, he said later. "I couldn't just sit there and listen to that") and was promptly tackled by guards and carted off to jail. He has a reputation for doing things that are somewhat out of the ordinary and his presence at many a City Council meeting has both embarrassed the slower-witted Councillors and provided excitement for other spectators...
...sheik, complete with kaffiyeh, next to Maximilien Cardinal de Furstenberg, the representative of the Vatican. Podigorny was seated alongside Mme. Nicolae Ceausescu, whose husband, the President of Rumania, is not Moscow's favorite chief of state. The Shah sat between Queens Fabiola of Belgium and Ingrid of Denmark. Agnew sat at the end of the table with a small American contingent, including a bejeweled Mrs. Henry Ford II. The banquet was scheduled to last three hours...