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...without token compensations. Beginning with Grant, who appointed Frederick Douglass commissioner to Santo Domingo and later minister to Haiti, black Republicans were appointed to significant Federal posts. Even after Reconstruction, they secured patronage jobs like collector of internal revenue or customs duties for a given city, local consular agent or postmaster, or register of the Federal Treasury...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Void in Spades--I | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...Pakistan's cause still runs very deep. Last week, in reaction to U.S. policy and the cancellation of most U.S. economic aid (which amounted to $159 million last year), the Indian government announced that it was granting full diplomatic recognition to North Viet Nam-while retaining only consular-level relations with Saigon. Until now, New Delhi had maintained a formal neutrality on the Viet Nam issue because it was chairman of the International Control Commission, which was charged with supervising a ceasefire in Viet Nam under the Geneva accord of 1954. India pointedly refrained from advising Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Toward a Revolution | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...carefully chosen residents of the British Colony. The card requests their presence at cocktails, a European-style formal dinner, and a screening of Chinese films on the last Thursday of each month in a private dining room of the Mandarin Hotel. The recipients-journalists, businessmen, trade representatives and consular officials-seldom decline this summons. All of them are members of the Marco Polo Club, the world's only social organization in which Westerners can meet regularly and informally with officials of the People's Republic of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Marco Polo's Mixer | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...Waldheim had reached the peak of an admirably planned career. Son of a school inspector who changed the family name from Waclawik to the socially more acceptable Waldheim, he decided in high school to become a diplomat and set about acquiring the credentials, starting with studies at the Vienna Consular Academy and at Vienna University. During World War II, he fought with the German army on the Russian front until he was wounded in 1942 and sent home, where he completed his law degree. He joined the Austrian foreign service in 1946 and served in a succession of diplomatic posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Viennese Compromise | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...Louette was indicted last spring for his role in the smuggling, but federal authorities said nothing publicly about Fournier and the consular official while they sought an agreement from the French government on the prosecution of Fournier. At one point, Herbert Stern, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, flew to Paris to discuss the case. Relations between the U.S. and France have been strained over drug traffic; American narcotics experts estimate that 80% of the heroin brought to the U.S. is purified from raw opium in clandestine laboratories around Marseille. John Cusack, the chief American narcotics agent in Europe, had criticized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The French Connection | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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