Only in New York

Every year in September, New York hosts the annual meeting of the United Nations. With Cuba currently in the news we are reminded of the initial visit by Fidel Castro in 1960 when it was rumored that his delegation were plucking chickens in their hotel rooms and were asked for $10,000 deposit which they refused to pay and ended up in Harlem. That same year the Russian delegation was headed by Nikita Khrushchev who betrayed his peasant roots by banging his shoe on the desk during the full assembly. In later years we had Libya's Gaddafi wanting to raise his tent in the park. The NYPD handled all these intrusions with their usual professionalism as they do every year.
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