Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chaos & Countermeasures. In Bukavu, U.S. Consul Richard Matheron burned his secret papers, armed his staff and two American newsmen on the scene, and began evacuating women and children. The government's local commander, who had been a sergeant in the Belgian Force Pitblique, regrouped 300 of his men in Bukavu, got advice over the phone from three Belgian colonels and his former commanding officer, now Belgian Ambassador to Burundi. Premier Adoula swallowed his pride and asked the U.N. for help. In flew a U.S. Air Force C-130 with armored cars and reinforcements. For the moment, the pygmoid threat...
With Spy sure to earn at least $200,000, Cornwell recently quit as a British consul in Hamburg and moved self, wife and three growing sons to Crete, where the British income tax does not reach. There, in a white stucco house within 30 yards of the sea, he is working over the final draft of his next book...
...troop ship avoiding U-boats-back and forth, in and out. He darts from failure (Labyrinth) to triumph (The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi) with great agility, but nothing he has written since 1955 can approach the genius of The Saint of Bleecker Street or even The Consul. Aside from one or two pleasant arias and one superb septet, there is very little in the Savage that suggests its composer's grand reputation. The music could have been written any time after 1850, and the libretto could have been improved by almost anyone with 15 minutes...
Grudging Hands. A fine drizzle fell over the 14,000-ft.-high plateau as Lechin arrived at Siglo Veinte. With him were the Archbishop of La Paz, U.S. Consul Charles Thomas, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, and six other newsmen. A mine siren sounded, and 3,500 grimy miners gathered in front of the union hall. Many of them were in an ugly mood. "Down with the stooges of Yankee imperialism," they chanted. "To the wall! To the wall!" A note of urgent pleading in his voice, Lechin told them that President Paz Estenssoro had promised a fair trial...
...just before the revolution of 1830 toppled them. Because of Russia's pogroms, the Rothschilds refused to grant loans to the czars. In many ways governments began to feel respect for, or fear of, the Rothschilds. Amschel became treasurer of the German Confederation, and Jakob the Austrian consul in Paris. Nathan's son Lionel was elected to the British House of Commons four times, but four times Parliament refused to seat him because he would not swear a Christian oath. Parliament finally gave in, and Lionel sat from...