Word: passport
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...Ecumenical Patriarchate has had great difficulty operating as an international Orthodox center. Turkey has shut down the patriarchate's press and its once renowned seminary. The regime has tightly controlled overseas travels of the Rum clergy. Last September, officials even yanked the passport of Metropolitan Meliton, the see's chief envoy, just as he was leaving for talks at the Vatican. Meliton is also engaged in crucial negotiations for a historic Great Synod of the world's Orthodox bishops...
...documents-but Passport X-000065 is gone
...macho mood of Bert Lance. Since his forced resignation as budget boss last September, Lance has continued to have the ear of his friend Jimmy Carter, and he is not shy in flaunting his special status to prospective business partners. He has trotted around the world flourishing Diplomatic Passport X-000065, which allowed him to bypass customs and which the White House intervened to keep for him. Earlier in March an organization called Friendship Force, founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, invited businessmen to a luncheon to hear Lance report on "a ten-nation European visit with heads of state...
Speaking in Atlanta last week on his latest experiences as a TV commentator (on WXIA, an Atlanta affiliate of ABC), Lance refused to answer any questions about the loan, Financial General or any other matters of substance. But he did return his diplomatic passport -"voluntarily," says the White House-on the very day that he gave his deposition about the loan. Lance's airy explanation: Passport X-000065 was a matter not "important enough for the President to worry about...
There are indeed 151 private citizens who hold what the State Department calls "courtesy" diplomatic passports, although by law they are available only to former Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chief Justices, Cabinet members and career ambassadors. Yet Lance's passport is not the courtesy model but the one he got when he was running Carter's budget office. Passport Office staffers say Carter wanted Lance to keep his special passport because "he may be sending Lance on a diplomatic mission." That argument was not convincing to Frances Knight, the former chief of the Passport Office. "If I had been there...