Word: consulate
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...years ago the Conservative Club invited the South African consul to defend apartheid. This year they invited Coors. Who are they going to invite next year to give "the other side of the controversy...
...made eight attacks on Americans or Israelis in Europe. The agencies further contended that he was a mastermind of international terror who had arranged the killings of Assistant U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Paris in 1982 and tried to murder U.S. Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg...
...when he spoke several years ago. Two years ago, in a move admittedly designed to provoke liberals more than enhance campus debate, the Conservative Club brought a South African official to Cambridge. The strategy worked, as a raucous mob of students assembled outside Lowell House and prevented the consul from leaving the campus. It took a phalanx of policemen and a decoy to maneuver the consul from the house...
...land of apartheid, Perkins and his wife Lucy, who is Chinese-born, have had few problems with whites. The country has become accustomed to visiting blacks. American blacks have already served as diplomats and foreign correspondents in South Africa for many years, and the current U.S. consul general in Cape Town, John Burroughs, is black...
...Consul-General took his tunnel escape in stride, according to Boyer. "He was upset to a certain degree when he was trapped in the junior common room. After that he was composed and took it with good humor," Boyer says...