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Murciano-Goroff did not return several phone calls and e-mails seeking comment over the past two days. A spokeswoman for the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, Angela Aggeler, said that federal law bars her from releasing information on individual American citizens...
...made waterfall. Another video chronicles an abandoned bacchanal aboard the presidential yacht, celebrating the birthday of the youngest of the three Marcos offspring, Irene Araneta, last year. A man in a baby bonnet bursts out of a cake. The First Lady jives under flashing strobe lights with an American consular official dressed in Bermuda shorts. Then Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a former provincial governor known to family and friends as Bong-bong, steps up to a mike, sporting makeup and a flashing electronic bow tie, and joins in on a raucous rendition of We Are the World, the song recorded...
...pace of globalization more generally) and it's clear that Canberra's China nannies are a busy bunch. A single incident or issue - hardball iron-ore price negotiations, the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement or the defection of a Chinese diplomat, such as Chen Yonglin, the senior consular official in Sydney who has sought political asylum in Australia - is not likely to bring about an irreversible deterioration in relations. The diplomatic game quickly moves...
...easiest area may be what is called bilateral relations, which could include a new consular agreement and one to increase what Shultz calls "people-to-people" exchanges. Nonetheless, these have been literally up in the air because the Soviets have linked both to resumption of U.S.-U.S.S.R. airline service. That presents difficulties involving landing fees and ticketing arrangements, which cause the American carrier involved, Pan Am, to fear that flights to the Soviet Union would be unprofitable...
...U.S.S.R. is in favor of more consular exchanges and open to the idea of periodic summits, but civil aviation talks may flounder owing to a disagreement over ticket prices and the landing fees the Soviets are requesting...