Annan Is Hailed Like a Rock Star
PARIS — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan looked slightly puzzled when he emerged from his Paris hotel Monday evening to a rousing welcome from hordes of excited teenagers waiting for rock star Madonna.
Witnesses said Annan, who arrived in Paris after peace negotiations in Baghdad and was going to dine with President Jacques Chirac, smiled and waved as the crowd cheered when he was bundled into his car by security men.
It was not immediately clear if the youths really knew who he was, or if he knew that Madonna, who showed up five minutes later, was booked in the same luxury hotel.
Employees diplomatically declined to say who had the bigger room.
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