Word: consul
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...Linguistics and Literature Prize in 1976; in Mexico City. Arreola 's Varia Invencion spawned a literary genre of poetry and prose woven intricately into story form. DIED. GERHART RIEGNER, 90, the honorary vice president and former Secretary-General of the World Jewish Congress, remembered for cabling the U.S. Vice Consul in Geneva with the first authoritative warning of the Nazi holocaust; in Geneva. The Aug. 8, 1942 telegram described Hitler's intent to deport and exterminate four million Jews in Eastern Europe, however, at the time, the U.S. was unable to verify Riegner's allegations. RESIGNED. PAT ROBERTSON...
...already seen by Arabs as a biased backer of Israel, so the tanks won't help ease the qualms Muslims feel about the bombing of Afghanistan. In fact, it may be too late. After Israeli troops first moved into the Palestinian towns, Ronald Schlicher, the U.S. consul-general in Jerusalem, went to Sheik Ikrima Sabri, the chief Muslim cleric in the city, to gauge public opinion on the Afghanistan airstrikes. "People are angry at America and they'll react against you," Sabri said. "America should stop being on the side of Israel...
...Around the world: Israeli security agents are testing a substance found on a cargo plane; Brazil's defense minister grounded a Lufthansa plane after officials found a suspicious powder on board; the US consul in Sydney, Australia was evacuated after a staff member found a letter with a "chemical residue." In Kenya, two suspicious letters mailed from the U.S. have tested negative for anthrax...
...British faced a slight problem. Several of that year's prominent Oscar nominees, such as Jim Sheridan, Neil Jordan and Liam Neeson, were actually Irish. To celebrate both the British and Irish would have sounded inelegant and was rife with political danger. The diplomatic skills of the British consul-general in L.A. saved the day. He suggested referring to the nominees of "the British Isles" (a quaint geographic nomenclature that includes Ireland by way of topography without mentioning the vexed issue of sovereignty...
...accident, I wanted to accompany Admiral [Thomas] Fargo to meet the families [of the dead Japanese], but I was told by someone higher up that feelings were running high and that I should not go. So on Tuesday night last week [Feb. 27], I went to meet the Japanese Consul General, Minoru Shibuya, and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Yoshio Mochizuki [who was visiting Hawaii], and I presented them with letters of apology to Prime Minister [Yoshiro] Mori and to the nine families of the deceased. I wanted them to see my face and know my apology and my emotions...