Word: consulate
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...BOSTON'S fashionable Beacon Hill, in front of the home of Her Majesty's consul, a half-dozen old men and a young woman, all from Southie, walk in a circle twelve feet wide, carrying signs. 'Elize Brit--Queen of Death.' It's a terrifically hot afternoon, and there are frequent stops so the marchers can rest in the shade. But they've been there since midnight; they'll stay till midnight comes again...
...Central America. Rightly or wrongly, the Maryknollers have acquired such a name for activism that when a gun-toting Irish priest named Donald McKenna joined the current group of leftist guerrillas in Guatemala, some reporters automatically referred to him as a Maryknoll Father, which he was not. The American consul general in El Salvador, Patricia Lasbury, received death threats as a former Maryknoll nun. She once was a nun, but in another order...
...passports and applications and be mailed a visa the same day; black boxes for the truly desperate, who can drop off their passports and applications and pick up a visa three hours later. But these efforts have not cleared away the crush, just pushed it onto the street. U.S. Consul General Alan Gise attributes the upsurge to the "Laker legacy" of cheap, no-frills flights, to exchange rates that until recently were favorable, to relatively low U.S. prices for food and hotels, and to the British worker's growing infatuation with Miami Beach. A further complication is London...
...left has always bemoaned its inability to make contacts with "the working class." If any good liberals had been on Beacon Hill Tuesday, marching outside the British consul's home, they could have observed up close the species that inhabits South Boston, Dorchester, and other non-suburban climes. At best, it could have been a time for building good feelings; at least it would have been fodder for a sociology paper. But the intelligentsia seems determined to alienate this source of support. The Real Paper, for example, which is very big on women taking back the night and happy...
When President Reagan denounces Government workers as shirkers, he cannot be thinking of Zhao Wenjin, 75. Zhao began work as a handyman at the U.S. consulate in Xiamen, China, when Calvin Coolidge was his Supreme Employer. In 1945, eight years after consular officials had fled Japanese invaders, an American vice consul popped down from Shanghai and ordered Zhao to keep at it. So each workday since-through Communist takeover and every twist of revolutionary rancor-Zhao Wenjin has puttered about the compound, now an oceanographic institute, and every month he has collected, via the British, his $61 paycheck. Just after...