Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British government awards 30 scholarships each year to American college seniors or graduate students on the basis of "distinction of intellect and character" and "potential to contribute to society." About 1000 students a year apply for the scholarships, Barbara Eachus, vice-consul at the British consulate said yesterday...
...Canadian Consul Neil Currie's invitation to Americans to come home [Nov. 23] is inconceivable. Our government can barely control the present ten provinces. What on earth would we do with 50 more...
Another highly effective White House aide, Chief Lobbyist Max Friedersdorf, resigned last week. Friedersdorf apparently quit for personal reasons; he had been hospitalized by an asthma attack last summer and took a less hectic job as U.S. consul general in Bermuda. He was replaced by Kenneth Duberstein, one of his chief assistants, who had proved adept at lining up votes for Reagan's programs in the Democratic-controlled House. Nonetheless, a lobbyist with Friedersdorf's skill in wooing legislators is bound to be missed...
Yuri Kapralov, consul for the Soviet Embassy in Washington, said that "there is no system of weapons that we are not prepared to eliminate, provided it is done on the basis of equity and equal security...
...dropped in on former President Jimmy Carter, 56, and his wife Rosalynn, 54. There to greet his arrival was a crowd of some 1,500, many of them children in yarmulkes, shouting "Shalom!" Begin and Carter seemed outwardly cordial, despite past frustrations over their differences. Said Joel Arnon, Israeli consul general in Atlanta: "They are two strong personalities who both believe they have a direct line...