Word: coves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hitting back at Glen Cove...
...This is in protest against our Government's permitting the Soviets to occupy a residence in Glen Cove tax free and turning it against our national interests," declared Mayor Alan Parente. The Soviets immediately protested to American officials, and the State Department delivered a stern reprimand: "This is an action that interferes in the conduct of foreign affairs, a function within the exclusive competence of the Federal Government...
...spokesman conceded, "We absolutely deny we are going to send the Marines to free the Russians from the grasp of the mayor of Glen Cove...
...this eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation, Glen Cove...
...like most matters of principle, this one may end up with a financial solution. If the Soviets, or the U.S. Government on their behalf, agree to pay the $75,000 or so in property taxes that would normally be owed to the Glen Cove treasury from the estate, would the diplomats be set free to swim and swing their racquets and clubs...