Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the investigation is completed -he is now confined on preliminary charges of violations of the Espionage Act at the McGuire Air Force Base stockade at Wrightstown, N.J.-Pentagon officials cannot be sure of his motive. They speculate that he got involved for money, making contact with a Soviet consul during his tour at Travis and offering to sell what he knew. His wife and children apparently had no inkling of his off-duty activities. While he was meeting the Soviet agent in Queens, they were resting in a motel after a long day's sightseeing in Manhattan...
...conference sponsored by the National Organization for Women voted to make the case the first international feminist cause. To further it, women in five U.S. and seven foreign cities staged demonstrations on the date originally set for the trial. When 50 protesters gathered on the lawn of the Portuguese consulate in Boston, Vice Consul Carlos Nunes relayed a curt reproof from his boss, Consul General George Freitas: "The world would be a better place if each person would mind his own business." To which one woman responded, "And you are minding the business of the three Marias-which...
...appalled to read that in response to an ultimatum by the kidnapers of the U.S. consul general in Guadalajara, Mexico, 30 prisoners were released from jail and flown to Cuba...
...think the ultimatum should have been reversed. Unless the consul general was released by a given time, the 30 prisoners would be executed...
Although Washington stood firm, Mexican President Luis Echeverría decided to bow to the demands. "Mexico will accede," he said, "because the essential thing is to protect the U.S. consul general's life." (Only six months before, five Mexican guerrillas were released from prison after their comrades hijacked a domestic Mexicana airline flight and demanded that all be allowed to fly to Cuba.) Besides, as a Mexican official put it, "allowing the terrorists to kill the consul general would have been tragic for U.S.-Mexican relations. It would have cost Mexico dearly in American investment...