Word: consular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unusual Risk. The Russians refused to let American officials see the men for five days, thereby violating the two-year-old U.S.-Soviet consular treaty, which specifies that access must be provided within a four-day limit. Then they disregarded the treaty a second time by denying further visits until early this week. Moscow filed a harsh complaint with the State Department, linking the incident with the Soviet Union's longstanding objections to the presence of U.S. military bases near its borders...
...call her the "ogress," and it has been suggested that she used to leak State Department information to Senator Joe McCarthy-a charge she firmly denies. In her most celebrated battle, she faced down Abba Schwartz, the liberal head of the State Department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, in an effort to ease political restrictions on the issuance of passports, tried to force her to resign. In the end, it was Schwartz who resigned from the department...
...admitted that he was "very tired," but he walked unassisted across the heavily guarded Lo Wu bridge separating the China mainland from the British colony of Hong Kong. U.S. consular officials were soon en route to welcome the arrival: 79-year-old Bishop James E. Walsh of Baltimore. After twelve years of captivity in a Shanghai prison, the Roman Catholic prelate last week was given his freedom...
...Sagmalcilar prison before his case came to trial last February. He was sentenced to five years in jail, where all he can look forward to are the letters, books, money and extra food that U.S. Consul Douglas Heck brings on his twice-monthly visits. As a U.S. consular official in Lebanon confesses: "The truth is we simply can't do any more." The only American ever to be sprung from a Lebanese prison by executive clemency was a Los Angeles youth who was found to have terminal cancer. He was allowed to go home...