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...about that time, the passengers who had spent the day in Cairo arrived in Port Said. There would be a delay, they were told, because of heavy traffic in the port. Not until midnight did an Italian consular official advise them that the Achille Lauro had been hijacked. Buses then took them back to Cairo, where they arrived after 3 a.m. For them, the waiting had just begun. In the lobby of the Concorde Hotel, Frank Hodes remarked the next day, "We are sitting here in total silence. We are getting no information at all." Charlotte Spiegel of New York...
...shall execute the others, one after another, if the atheistic campaign against Islamic Tripoli does not stop." Another caller warned that the Soviet embassy in Beirut would be blown up if it was not evacuated within 48 hours. A short time later, a passerby found the bloodstained body of Consular Secretary Arkadi Katakov, 32, a gaping bullet wound in his head, near a bombed-out sports stadium in Beirut...
...laws were changed to require that immigrants be approved or rejected at consular offices overseas. Then came the Depression and a reversal of roles: Ellis became a deportation center. The approach of World War II would bring in refugees, of course, but the great migration of immigrants from Europe to the U.S. had ceased, as had the original purpose of Ellis Island. In 1955, it was put up for sale -- 27 1/2 acres, 35 buildings, good view -- but at $6.5 million the government found no buyers. Vandals had the run of the place...
...owner is the Soviet Union and the occupants are at least 41 Soviet officials. That is an unusually large number of diplomats for a consulate in a medium-size American city, but the Soviets did not come to the Bay Area to stamp tourist visas. About half the consular officials, the FBI estimates, are actually spies...
...expected to last about a month. The plaintiffs say that discrimination begins with the job assignments offered to women and continues with promotions, resulting in markedly fewer eligible women than men being elevated to top positions. The suit further charges that women tend to be funneled into less prestigious consular duties (issuing passports and visas and handling problems faced by Americans abroad) while men are given more powerful political, economic or administrative posts. The department counters that the situation has been improving. Among its witnesses will be Joan Clark, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs. Not expected: former Ambassador...