Word: charged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reluctantly, perhaps because of their anger over extensive French arms sales to Iraq. By Thursday morning, all 14 of the women and children on board were released. That afternoon the remaining hostages were herded onto the runway. The hijackers blew up the plane's cockpit, then surrendered. French Chargé d'Affaires Jean Perrin called the explosion "a little matter of honor...
...invasion, has ballooned to 33%. Business is at a standstill, awaiting completion of the Cuban-built airstrip (estimated cost: at least $70 million) that the U.S. saw as a strategic threat to the region. These days the two-mile runway mainly serves as a jogging track for the U.S. chargé d'affaires, Charles Gillespie. "If the U.S. doesn't do something quickly," says a local businessman, "the well of pro-American enthusiasm could...
...history of U.S. relations with the Vatican is tangled indeed. Washington had a consul, chargé d'affaires or "minister resident" to the Papal States from 1797 to 1867, when, with the impending collapse of the Pope's regime, the U.S. legation was closed down. There matters stood until two days before Christmas, 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed his personal representative to the Holy See. (By not sending an ambassador, F.D.R. avoided Senate confirmation and the inevitable Protestant uproar.) There was no regular diplomatic contact following President Truman's debacle of 1951 until 1970, when President...
...fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide Mihçioĝlu, 42, the wife of the embassy's chargé d'affaires, and her son Atasay...
...colors of Pan American World Airways to land in Taiwan since 1978; less than 24 hours after its 113 passengers had disembarked last Wednesday, it was at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and China. In Peking, China's Assistant Foreign Minister summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires and delivered a formal note of protest. Minutes later, the U.S. economic affairs counsellor was handed an official letter from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) detailing retaliatory measures that would be taken against Pan Am, the only U.S. airline with regular flights to Peking...