Word: consulars
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...obtain. A criminal typically combs newspaper obituary columns for a suitable death and writes to the deceased's home town for a copy of the birth certificate, the most useful document required to get a passport. Some thieves steal valid passports from unwary travelers. Others bribe U.S. consular employees to issue visas, which citizens of all foreign countries except Canada need to enter...
...regime has reasserted claims to the area dating back to an 1859 boundary treaty with Britain. In talks with Guatemalan officials earlier this year, Britain agreed to give Guatemala access to the Caribbean through Belize, but the negotiations subsequently broke down. Guatemala closed its borders with Belize and severed consular relations with Britain...
Marshall also said Colonel Jose Guillermo Garcia. El Salvador's Defense and public Security Minister, is conducting an investigation in Bourgeois' disappearance. She added that the U.S. consular office in San Salvador is working with the three El Salvadoran detectives assigned to the case
When President Reagan denounces Government workers as shirkers, he cannot be thinking of Zhao Wenjin, 75. Zhao began work as a handyman at the U.S. consulate in Xiamen, China, when Calvin Coolidge was his Supreme Employer. In 1945, eight years after consular officials had fled Japanese invaders, an American vice consul popped down from Shanghai and ordered Zhao to keep at it. So each workday since-through Communist takeover and every twist of revolutionary rancor-Zhao Wenjin has puttered about the compound, now an oceanographic institute, and every month he has collected, via the British, his $61 paycheck. Just after...
...nearly three hours, Lopez singlehandedly kept the invaders out of the consulate, primarily by using tear-gas grenades. "At one point, the students tried to break into the consulate through one of the windows, but he beat them back," reported Mark Lijek, 29, a U.S. consular official...