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...here with great optimism and hope that the American government, and more important, the American people, will back us in our fight." Other groups arguing the contra cause include Lehrman's Citizens for America and the Council on Inter-American Security, a conservative organization that held a Nicaraguan Freedom Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. An organization called the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund is planning a $250-a-plate dinner in Washington this week; the diverse guest list includes Jeane Kirkpatrick, Oscar de la Renta and Wayne Newton. The special guest: Ronald Reagan...
...Brian Mulroney exchanged on the gray stone battlements of the historic Citadel, the meeting was as carefully choreographed as a ballet. Indeed, the two leaders reveled in the spotlight when they and their wives left their flower-bedecked box at Quebec City's Grand Theater during a Sunday evening gala and joined entertainers in a rousing chorus of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
Voters who go through the routine procedure of changing their party registrations do not ordinarily get gala receptions thrown in their honor or receive the personal congratulations of just about every bigwig in their new political tribe. But then Jeane Kirkpatrick is no ordinary voter. When the departing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations confided that she was severing a lifelong affiliation with the Democratic Party and planning to register as a Republican, G.O.P. officials gleefully scheduled a celebration bash for April 3 and sent out invitations decorated with a drawing of a dancing elephant. Just about every ranking Republican...
...Queen had commented on the cause of a protracted miners' strike; the royal family is expected not to discuss politics, and the paper quickly retracted the remarks. The Queen Mother still plans to come to lunch. And Prince Charles and Princess Diana are scheduled to attend an outdoor Times gala complete with fireworks at Hampton Court Palace in July...
...Francisco dressing room before the gala at Stanford, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh knew at a glance that the problem for his players would not be overconfidence. They looked overwhelmed. "The stress of that moment is unbelievable," he says. "You can go into a stupor under such pressure." Like Shula a pup out of Paul Brown, Walsh had heard tell of a crisp pep talk delivered by the Cleveland Browns coach on opening day of 1950, when the survivors of the disbanded All-America Football Conference were being called amateurs unfit to share a field with the great N.F.L. champion Philadelphia...