Word: consulate
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...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...
...them some sort of governing role. French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has indicated that his country is prepared to use its "good offices" to help in the evolution of a political solution; the French have contacts with the PRO in Paris and have even kept their vice consul in Danang...
...wings of poesy. Joseph Conrad's Jim leaves Victorian propriety behind him to become a brutal lord among primitive East Indies tribesmen. D.H. Lawrence's characters trek to all parts of the globe in search of a primeval energy lacking in Edwardian drawing rooms. Malcolm Lowry's consul seeks to escape from the gentility of Georgian society by drinking himself into a stupor under the volcanoes of Mexico...
This was no ordinary Harvard professor or racetrack bum. This was Mr. D., a man who had come to Boston to serve as the consul for a South American country. When the government of his native land was overthrown by a left-wing coup, Mr. D. was out of a job and started betting the horses full-times. The socio-political aspects of horseracing can be plainly seen in the gentleman's moved insight into the sports...
...holding cell, he posted his own $375 bail and returned to Detroit. So did DuRoss, a Grosse Pointe mother of two whose musician husband was killed in an auto accident 16 years ago. DuRoss has been seen in public a few times with the same former Italian consul who occasionally squired Cristina around when Henry was out of town. Ford's only comment about the incident: "Never complain, never explain...