Word: proconsulate
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...mistaken for a presidential palace or deluxe resort hotel. For decades the 20-room mansion was a fitting accessory to the role performed by a series of U.S. envoys. In those days, the American Ambassador was among the capital's top VIPS, acting as a kind of proconsul for U.S. commercial interests and as a guardian of the local status...
...authority to Moscow's army commander. With this tacit admission by the Soviets that they were the only real authority in the country, some diplomatic observers predicted they might also soon do away altogether with the fiction of an indigenous government and replace Karmal with a Kremlin-appointed proconsul. Karmal himself was believed to have holed up inside the Soviet embassy; even at the height of the crisis last week, he was seen only once, on television, and then only in a rerun of an agriculture program...
...time to rescind former Prime Minister Ian Smith's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence and return the colony to British sovereignty under its former name of Southern Rhodesia. The Union Jack will not wave over Salisbury for long: after next spring's elections, the Queen's proconsul will hand over power to the new leaders of an independent Zimbabwe...
Brian, Christ's next-door neighbor as a toddler, grows up to hate the Roman oppressors, and joins a group of Judaean terrorists. He raids Pilate's palace with them, gets caught, and is sentenced to crucifixion by the proconsul, whose speech impediment undermines his pomp ("Bwian, you awe sentenced to cwucifixion...
Somoza's refusal to step down presents a dilemma for American policymakers. The U.S. has long supported the dynasty as a stronghold of antiCommunism; Somoza often paraded around Central America as if he were a U.S. proconsul. Washington is anxious to change that image, but it does not want to see a power vacuum that could be filled by a pro-Castro regime. The U.S. has, however, taken soundings of Nicaragua's neighbors. Said an Administration official: "The consensus is that the sooner Somoza gets out, the better...