11.   Looking gaunt in his graying beard and jailhouse shirt and trousers, Vesco appeared in a Cuban court Thursday to declare his innocence on charges of economic crimes.

12.   Old men in graying beards, wrapped in shawls of woolen blankets, stood next to clean-shaven men in topcoats and Western suits and Uzbeks in traditional clothes.

13.   Speaking calmly in Afrikaans, sometimes making gestures to emphasize points or smoothing his graying beard, Basson boasted about his achievements as a military doctor.