Word: consulant
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...when the German air raids started in France, I sent my wife and daughter to the United States. Two weeks later, Paris fell and, with a million other Parisians, I was in my car on the roads of southern France. Eventually, I reached Marseilles and saw the American consul there. He informed me that I could not go to America since the Latvian quota (eighteen people per year) was filled for the next seven years. My sister and my wife visited Professor Einstein and it was through his personal intervention that my name was added to the list of writers...
However, Salel Osman, vice-consul of the Saudi Arabian Consulate in New York, said yesterday exceptions to the requirement are made in special cases, particularly in the case of journalists...
...ties with other Caribbean nations and freeze U.S.Cuban relations in a state of permanent hostility. In pursuit of that goal, the clandestine terrorists have bombed and shot up Cuban offices in Jamaica, Barbados, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Mexico; in an abortive attempt in July to snatch a Cuban consul in Yucatán, the terrorists instead killed a visiting Cuban fisheries expert. More shockingly, CORU apparently arranged the bombing-murder in Washington last month of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier (TIME...
...postcards. Also on sale are toy replicas of a man in bed. Two tourists, a husband and wife, enter the room. The proprietress announces that the admission is $2 each. Replies the man: "Two dollars! Shit!" Leave it to the man who brought opera to both Broadway (The Consul) and film (The Medium) to bless the operatic lexicon with one of the commoner four-letter words...
Burly Bodyguards. For his part, Vesco says he has torn up his American passport, but he refuses to make the formal declaration before a consul that is required to renounce U.S. citizenship. "Sure they would like me to walk in there," says Vesco. "There are quite a few cases of U.S. officials kidnaping and torturing people in Latin American countries." Vesco's $500,000 home in a San José suburb is surrounded by high walls with TV cameras mounted atop each corner. He rarely ventures outside without burly bodyguards, who often tote submachine guns. Recently a Vesco entourage...