Word: consular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone in the schizophrenic California-based cult, which hacked a spare living out of the Guyana soil while banking millions in secret Swiss accounts, had recorded the final 43 minutes of the colony's existence. The tape was found by a U.S. consular employee in Guyana and turned over to the FBI. Guyanese officials were given a copy. While both Guyana and the U.S. Justice Department refused to release the tape, copies somehow proliferated. The one obtained by TIME last week discloses that Jones' death decree was met with stubborn resistance as well as fatal acquiescence...
...that isolated instances of brutality against Palestinian prisoners have happened. The government has also insisted that the maltreatment was against its policy, and that the culprits were punished. What riled Jerusalem this time were leaked reports, first published in the Washington Post, indicating that cables from a former U.S. consular official in Jerusalem went well beyond the carefully hedged assertions of the State Department report...
...Jones' final delusions was that he would move his cult to the Soviet Union. A delegation from the commune talked twice with Feodor Timofeyev, the Soviet press attache in Georgetown, about a possible move, but a memo of that meeting shows the Russians offered little encouragement. Russian consular officials and a Russian doctor also visited Jonestown, which was the object of a favorable report by Tass. In the past few months, Russian language classes were held at the commune. Members had to recite Russian phrases, like "good morning," before receiving their rice-and-gravy meals...
...part, the U.S. has not commented publicly on the question of Soviet interference in Iran, but some observers do not rule it out. Moscow maintains a diplomatic mission in Tehran that is far bigger than that of the U.S. Intelligence officials assume that the Soviet embassy and consular offices provide cover for large numbers of KGB operatives. What is Moscow's aim? "From the Soviet standpoint," says one Western official, "the game here is pretty simple: worse is better. The Shah is their enemy, and anybody who opposes him is to be supported." Adds a former U.S. diplomat...
...John P. Egan, consular agent in Cordoba, Argentina, kidnaped and killed by guerrillas...