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There was the White House-Kremlin hot line, then the test ban treaty-and now a U.S.-U.S.S.R. consular convention to promote trade and to protect the citizens of each country while traveling in the other...
...government all but ignored his fantastic, if sometimes freakish, feats. Official distaste began when Burton wrote a detailed study of pederasty among the natives. He was promptly blackballed from future promotion in the British Indian Army. Thereafter, he never rose above the rank of captain or progressed beyond minor consular appointments in a belated career in the British foreign service...
...Communist China and Southeast Asia, he noted that this year there will be more discussions with the Soviet Union on general disarmament, on limiting defense expenditures, on controlling dissemination of nuclear weapons to other countries. "On the bilateral side we will be going ahead with such matters as the consular agreement, with a cultural exchange agreement, possible further steps in the trade field." There are no quick and easy solutions, he said, but the U.S. is ready through "positive" attitudes to encourage Soviet moderation...
...size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun pressuring for a summit, possibly next spring in Stockholm. For the moment, Johnson wants no part of it. Neither does Rusk, unless some progress is made on such specific items as the opening of consular offices in several U.S. and Soviet cities or the establishment of air routes. But the British, who seem ready to go to the summit every Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
...Jenkins, 85, a little-known Tennessee-born gringo who quietly amassed a fortune upwards of $250 million in 62 years of fast dealing in Mexico; of a heart attack; in Puebla, Mexico. Traveling south in 1901 to start as a 500-a-day mechanic, Jenkins became a U.S. consular agent in Puebla, was kidnaped by bandits in 1920, and that proved to be his break; somehow he got his hands on part of the $25,000 ransom (at least the Mexican government, which paid the money, accused him of it), suddenly blossomed into a Prohibition bootlegger, then into textiles, cement...