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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
Bert Lance's continuing ties with his old friend Jimmy Carter are well known in the U.S., but on foreign trips the former budget chief can flash more tangible evidence of his White House clout: a diplomatic passport bearing the serial number X-000065 and the assertion, "The bearer is abroad on a diplomatic assignment for the Government of the United States of America." As it happens. Lance's most recent missions abroad, including a trip to London and the Middle East to help Arab interests angling for control of a $2.2 billion bank holding company in the Washington...
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...
...divorced husband in Manhattan. It was the last time she ever heard from them. When Mrs. Downer drove to the Los Angeles airport to pick them up, they were not aboard their designated flight. Ex-Husband Seth Gerchberg, it later developed, had remarried, liquidated his assets, obtained a passport and disappeared with the children. Since then Mrs. Downer and her second husband have spent $40,000 on a futile investigative legal odyssey that finally cost them their Pacific Palisades home and landed them on welfare. Increasingly disconsolate over having allowed the court-ordered Manhattan visit, Mrs. Downer now wonders...