Word: legatione
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The stranger stared at him, then brought forth a diplomatic identification card. Georgescu, describing the scene later at a Washington press conference, said he noted carefully that the card was made out in the name of Cristache Zambeti, signed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, dated Nov. 5, 1951, and...
An icy gale whipped the trees along Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and tore at the policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six...
A fast-thinking French correspondent dialed the legation-6551-and asked in Russian: "Was that bang a hand grenade or a bomb?" "Don't be a fool," came the reply. "It was a bomb, and a big one. Seconds later the Iron Curtain was lowered, and even Israeli police...
Handy Pretext. A flush of horror and foreboding spread across Israel. The bombing was the most serious anti-Communist incident since Moscow came out in the open with its anti-Jewish campaign (others: the firing of a Soviet bookshop in Jerusalem; a hand-grenade explosion at the Czech legation). This...
Witness No. 3 was Vladimir I. Toumanoff, 29, formerly a department recruiting officer, now concerned with efficiency rating. With his testimony, the investigation turned specifically toward the question of homosexuals. At the outset Chairman Joe McCarthy struck a wild blow: Witness Toumanoff, he observed, was born "in the Russian Legation...