Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Fotopoulos, the Greek consul in Boston, said last Friday that "The president of Harvard has come into direct contact with the Ministry of Culture in Athens," but he was not willing to elaborate further...
...Army members stormed a 14-story downtown office building where more than 1,000 people were at work. Spraying gunfire around the ninth floor, the site of a U.S. passport office and the Swedish embassy, the terrorists wounded three guards and seized 53 hostages, among them the American consul and the Swedish chargé d'affaires...
...shoot down the plane if it overflew the country with hijackers aboard. As negotiations continued, a nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise sent 60 servings to the hostages. Finally, word came that Libya, a well-known supporter of radical movements, would take the ten men. The five terrorists, prodding U.S. Consul Robert Stebbins and 14 other hostages with pistols, boarded a bus for the airport. There they waited a further 25 hours before exchanging the 15 men for four Japanese and Malaysian officials who went as substitute hostages on the flight to Tripoli. Upon arrival, the ten radicals surrendered peacefully...
...such luck. Hong Kong authorities threatened to return the group to Bangkok. At the airport, Mills picked up nine other stranded Vietnamese. All were taken into custody and detained at an old British army camp. But Mills appears to have been successful in persuading the U.S. consul general to allow his charges to fly on to Guam, even offering to pay their fares. "I'll buy the tickets if I have to hawk my left ear." The refugees probably will be released from the camp this week. In the meantime, Mills and Swissair have kept up their hopes...
...French embassy compound in Phnom-Penh, staffed only by a vice consul and a cipher clerk, was jammed with about 400 French citizens, some 400 Cambodians who claim French blood and about two dozen foreign journalists and representatives of international organizations. According to officials in Paris, sanitary conditions within the refuge were poor, intestinal disease was rife and there were serious shortages of food, water and medicine...