1. The departing U.S. ambassador to Tokyo, Thomas Foley, personally apologized for it Wednesday to Emperor Akihito during a farewell call. 2. Abdul Sattar told The Associated Press that Musharraf accepted his resignation during a farewell call Friday at the presidential office. 3. Ajit, whose five-year term ends this year, is scheduled to make farewell calls on Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai and before leaving for Laos. 4. Mahathir made a farewell call on Nawaz before accompanying him to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah airport. 5. No information was released about what the two leaders discussed during the farewell call. 6. Ramos made the statement during the farewell call of Chinese Ambassador Huang Guifang at the presidential palace. 7. Raymond L. Flynn, who is resigning as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, paid a farewell call on Pope John Paul II Tuesday. 8. The conversations with Blair and Adams occurred after Clinton received farewell calls from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. 9. The archbishop of Canterbury, who is retiring in October, paid a farewell call Friday on Pope John Paul II. 10. The half-hour meeting was a farewell call by Li, who returns shortly to Beijing to a senior position in the Foreign Ministry. |