1.   As for the embassy receptions, Gingrich emphasized that the contributors were citizens.

2.   At a recent embassy reception, I ran into Louis Freeh.

3.   At a glittering embassy reception, we bumped into the musicians Chick Corea and Gary Burton, who, even then, were genuinely famous.

4.   Diplomats cannot chat with terrorists at embassy receptions.

5.   Papoulias is to meet President Elias Hrawi later Saturday and attend a Greek embassy reception in the evening.

6.   He spoke by phone from Washington to an embassy reception in Zagreb, the Croatian capital.

7.   Jones said he would join many Americans celebrating the Fourth at an embassy reception.

8.   Later Wednesday, the prince was due at a British embassy reception before moving on to have dinner with Irish Prime Minister John Bruton.

9.   Meanwhile Chilean President Eduardo Frei ordered his ministers to stay away from the French embassy reception in Santiago.

10.   Several personalities who had been expected to boycott the embassy reception turned up all the same.