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...furious anti-apartheid protestors flowed into the Lowell House courtyard upon learning that South African Consul-General Abe S. Hoppenstein was speaking to the Conservative Club. Protestors linked arms to create a human barricade, chanting “Conservative Club, what do you say? Would you invite...
...Alastair Gaisford, now retired, was consul of the Australian embassy in Phnom Penh at the time and in charge of assembling the case file after Wilson's death. He says it includes cables between top-level Australian and Cambodian officials showing that in the run-up to the standoff, Canberra made a commitment of military assistance to Phnom Penh regardless of the outcome of the hostage negotiations - a pledge Gaisford says "was effectively the signing over of [the hostages'] death warrant," since the Cambodian army was more focused on proving its prowess than on collateral damage to the hostages...
...16th the documentary was screened in the TSAI Auditorium of the CGIS South building as part of Harvard’s Brazilian Film Series. It was followed by a question and answer session with the directors. In the audience there were many Brazilians and Japanese, including Mika Iga, Vice Consul in the Consulate General of Japan in Boston...
...hostile foreign elements seeking to oust the communist government. The sentences, which range between five and 16 years, were swiftly condemned by human rights groups and Western governments. The U.S. has "deep concerns over the arrest and conviction of persons for the peaceful expression of their beliefs," said U.S. consul general, Kenneth Fairfax, following the verdict on Wednesday afternoon. (See pictures from the China-Vietnam border...
...what could be a sign of fissures beginning to develop within the Iranian government, the consul of the country's embassy in Norway resigned suddenly on Wednesday over the regime's bloody crackdown on antigovernment protesters during the Shi'ite holiday of Ashura last month - the worst violence the country has seen since the unrest that erupted following last June's disputed presidential election...