Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLUMBIA has long been known for the work done by Literary Historian William de Bary and Translator-Critic Burton Watson in assembling source material on classical Chinese literary traditions. Political Scientist Donald W. Klein is a biographer of current Chinese leaders; O. Edmund Clubb, who was U.S. consul-general in Peking until 1950, has taken a leading role in publicizing the arguments for new U.S. initiatives toward China. Michel Oksenberg, a younger scholar, has shown that bureaucratic decisions in China, far from being totalitarian, can be as complex as they...
Young nomads who run into trouble with the law while abroad should not expect much aid. All a U.S. consul can do is help them find a lawyer and notify their parents. At last count there were 747 young Americans in foreign jails, all on charges of possession of and trafficking in drugs. Hirsute amateur capitalists who are caught trying to turn hash into cash find that penalties are generally harsher abroad than...
...Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom, 58, a man of habit, was late for lunch. Disturbed, his wife Else phoned his Istanbul office. "Something's wrong," she said. "Ephraim is always so punctual...
Something was indeed wrong. Three hours earlier, four armed toughs from Turkey's extreme leftist People's Liberation Army, a guerrilla movement trained in Syria with Soviet backing, had entered the Elroms' apartment building. In a ground floor flat directly under the consul general's, they methodically overpowered and trussed up twelve people while waiting for Elrom's predictable 1 p.m. arrival. When the diplomat arrived and resisted, they slugged him on the head with a pistol butt and carried him off, wrapped in a gray blanket in the back seat...
...Italian father, Bellei, now 31, was born and brought up in Italy. As a youth, he visited the U.S. on his mother's passport; in 1952, the State Department issued Bellei his own passport, which was routinely approved until his 23rd birthday. Then, in 1966, the American consul in Rome informed him that he had lost his U.S. citizenship. Now living in Rome, Bellei spent years fighting for his right to be an American, and lost in the court of last resort...