chocos guests included , with their partners , one mute chinese civilian representative of the peoples liberation army contracted to build the tanzam line , two dour east european trade attaches , two drawling north american staffers , three tall , blonde , tanned scandinavian do-gooders , a young turk on secondment from the foreign ministry in ankara , and two tubby , hirsute faced , sun-glass eyed commercial attaches from the middle east , several permanent secretaries and undersecretaries , the manager of the yachting club , chairman and secretary of the greek club , together with the not officially forgotten founder of the now defunct united tanganyika party ; it was a measure of chocos relative unassailability as host to the elite that he felt able to include the odd pariah on his guest list .