Mr. Mubarak also received condolences from other world leaders, many of whom have spent time here during diplomatic gatherings.

It permits Philip Metcalfe, a freelance writer, to portray Berlin as calm on the surface, to tell of parties and diplomatic gatherings, to hint at social intrigue and sexual liaisons.

He is still visibly uncomfortable in office, staying to the side during cabinet meetings and diplomatic gatherings.

'Charming and Tough' With a head of thick, silvery white hair and wide eyes that seemed to express a permanent sense of wonder, Mr. Han was easily noticeable at diplomatic gatherings.

THE senior Pakistani official looked warily about the room at a diplomatic gathering here last week.

The gathering will be the biggest international diplomatic gathering to be held in Northern Ireland.

At a funeral that resembled a diplomatic gathering, Angier Biddle Duke was recalled yesterday as a public official with a special sense of service and a family man with a special sense of fun.

His iteration of the Wesseling thesis confuses two diplomatic gatherings, the Congress of Berlin of 1878 and the Berlin Conference on West Africa of 1884-85.

It is this diplomatic gathering that is popularly assumed to have been called to divide up Africa.

Today's impeachment vote marks a precipitous plunge for a leader who only four months ago won international acclaim as the host of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the largest diplomatic gathering in history.