Invitation to dinner honoring Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel from USUN Protocol

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Invitation to dinner honoring Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel from USUN Protocol

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February 11, 2000

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Holbrooke, Richard C.

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Holbrooke, Kati Marton

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This document is an invitation from the Office of Protocol, US Mission to the UN, on behalf of Richard C. Holbrooke and Kati Marton Holbrooke. It requests the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Wiesel's company at a dinner held in honor of President Nelson Mandela and Ms. Graca Machel. The dinner is scheduled for Friday, February 25, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. at The Waldorf Astoria Towers in New York City. The document includes an RSVP phone number and features a handwritten note 'Regrets', indicating the Wiesels' response to the invitation.

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