Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former State Department vice consul at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Sievers recently completed a study on African development that won praise from the international community, Sachs said. Called the African Competitiveness Report, the study surveyed business leaders and government officials on prospects for growth in 24 African countries...
Edward Abington, the able American consul general in Jerusalem, has the most delicate job in Middle East diplomacy: dealing with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. His job is made even more difficult by the U.S.'s apparent fear of offending Israel. The latest evidence: TIME has learned that Abington was rebuked by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for his statement, quoted in the New York Times May 21, that Israel's settlement expansion in the occupied territories is "ideologically driven" rather than based on natural growth and a demand for housing...
...supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely the pretense of extraterritoriality, Rick McLaren, self-declared "ambassador, consul-general and chief foreign legal officer" of the separatist Republic of Texas, ended his 6 1/2-day standoff against America, laid down 10 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and agreed to a cease-fire. In a nod to protocol, the plenipotentiaries who negotiated the agreement--otherwise known as the Texas Rangers--watched...
...exhibit consists of seven sculptures by Greg Wyatt, a resident sculptor at the St. John's cathedral in New York, and 29 paintings by Ivonne A-Baki, the Dudley House artist in residence and consul of Ecuador...
...about the guards, hid us in the woods, fetched us after dark, fed us and lodged us, dressed us up to look like respectable people and accompanied us the next morning to a little mountain railway station. We headed for Zurich. Once there, we registered with the Dutch consul and so could not be sent back...