Word: consulates
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...caller also said that the Islamic Jihad had been responsible for the Beirut kidnaping of the Saudi consul general, Hussein Farrash, a day earlier. Farrash, 45, had been abducted by seven gunmen who intercepted his limousine as he was driving to work. According to the anonymous message, the diplomat would be tried according to Islamic law, executed, and his body would be "thrown...
...alleged transcript was given to Koch last August by an aide, who had received it from the Israeli consul general in New York, Naphtali Lavie. Lavie had come across the Lebanese report in a packet of articles distributed to scholars, journalists and other subscribers by the Israeli government monitoring service. Koch sent an indignant letter to Weinberger demanding that he publicly deny the conversation with the Saudis. Weinberger wrote back that "this 'socalled transcript' is a complete fabrication and a very crude attempt at disinformation." But Koch demanded a public disavowal. When Weinberger refused to reveal the details...
...history of U.S. relations with the Vatican is tangled indeed. Washington had a consul, chargé d'affaires or "minister resident" to the Papal States from 1797 to 1867, when, with the impending collapse of the Pope's regime, the U.S. legation was closed down. There matters stood until two days before Christmas, 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed his personal representative to the Holy See. (By not sending an ambassador, F.D.R. avoided Senate confirmation and the inevitable Protestant uproar.) There was no regular diplomatic contact following President Truman's debacle of 1951 until 1970, when President...
...Minister Bob Hawke: "No one can gain or draw satisfaction from this wanton act of terrorism." Both India and Australia were to have been hosts to the Koreans later on the tour. In Los Angeles, 600 Koreans attended a memorial service at the Wilshire United Methodist Church. Said Korean Consul Moon Ik Chang: "We are very shattered...
...film has a saving grace, it's Michael Caine. As Fortnum, Caine plays Plarr's antithesis--a diplomatic has-been who is vocal, inefficient, frumpy and, more often than not, drunk. Fortnum's expressiveness is near-heroic beside the doctor's iron mask, but the endearing consul can't carry the film alone. Like the proverbial tree in the forest, Fortnum's sentiments flag for want of a receiver among the other characters...