Word: consulars
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Once accepted, the student embarks on a program tailored to his needs. He can take courses in the most common diplomatic languages, in international trade and finance, in commercial, maritime, and consular law. He may also study such exotic subjects as Hindustani and Icelandic, or Tanganyikan religions...
...billygoat beard, 30-year-old Charlie Rosecrans-had covered World War II in the Pacific almost from start to finish, was in Tokyo when a new war sent him to Korea. The third I.N.S. man was young (22), eager Ken Inouye, New York-born son of a Japanese consular official. A fledgling cameraman for Telenews, I.N.S. television affiliate, he had already made a reputation for his battle shots...
...more than a year, a tight little group of U.S. consular aides had lived and worked in the tower-topped Glen Line Building on Shanghai's teeming Bund. One day last month, U.S. Consul General Walter P. McConaughy hauled down a tattered flag, locked the doors of his offices and left. For the first time in over 100 years, no U.S. flag flew over a diplomatic post on the Chinese mainland...
...sweltering Tampico, where the shrimp boats idled while their crewmen roamed about freely ashore, the U.S. skippers huddled with their lawyers and U.S. consular officials, trying to make up their minds whether to pay the fines under protest or post bail pending an appeal and decision of their cases. The time was ripe for both countries to stop trading such words as "poacher" or "pirate" and settle on a legal definition of territorial limits...
...news that also had prospects of peril. England and the U.S., allies in defense of a common way of life, seemed to be heading down diverging roads in Asia; the Chinese Communists, after a leisurely four days, had accepted Britain's recognition; by harshly treating its consular officials, they had made sure of U.S. hostility. To compound these complications, the Russians reached across Communist China last week to extend official recognition to the Communist rebels of Ho Chi Minh in French Indo-China...