Word: consulars
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...Aliens entering Britain get a sharp once-over from immigration officers broadly empowered to bar undesirables-for example, anyone broke enough to become a public charge. U.S. students hoping to work their way may suffer that fate; those who get jobs without work permits may later be deported. By consular agreement, word of an American's arrest is immediately passed to U.S. officials. The accused's right to counsel begins at the pretrial magistrate's hearing. In civil as well as criminal cases, the government pays the bill if a British defendant (or plaintiff) cannot afford...
...EASTERN EUROPE. The U.S. has diplomatic relations, but not consular agreements, with all European Communist countries except Albania and East Germany. U.S. tourists have no legal rights in the Western sense, but neither should they fear being treated any worse than Communist citizens. Checking in at the U.S. consulate is the first thing to do in all Communist countries. As for "don'ts," the list is long: Don't criticize officials, disobey police, lose documents, carry letters for anyone, or photograph shabby people and military installations (including civilian bridges, airports and railroad stations). A Communist legal tour...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Stringent traffic regulations include very low speed limits. Americans may be jailed for months on minor charges without consular knowledge...
...RUSSIA. A pending consular treaty provides U.S. access to arrested Americans within four days. Bail is rare, but foreigners awaiting trial may be temporarily freed in Moscow-hardly an easy place to escape from. Foreign lawyers may supplement court-appointed Soviet lawyers, though purely as advisers. Soviet police are ordinarily quite tolerant of minor offenses, such as public drunkenness, but careless picture taking is bad medicine. Chary of national disgrace, the Soviet cops are ruthless in protecting tourists from thieves and swindlers...
...Putumayo Valley in Peru and found horrors of mutilation and murder even more shocking than those of the Congo. He was a man of passionate idealism and undoubted courage. Joseph Conrad thought him "a limpid personality" with "a touch of the conquistador in him." After Casement resigned from the consular service in 1913, he was caught up in Ireland's seething demand for home rule, denouncing Britain as the "bitch and harlot of the North...