Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really like Andy Hardy, a starry-eyed boy who liked to have a good time," mused Author Gore Vidal about his latest subject, the Roman Emperor Caligula, who once appointed his horse as Consul and twice abducted brides of noblemen in the middle of their weddings. "He was a hedonist." Vidal's screenplay is scheduled to go before the cameras in Rome next year. Appropriately, the $7 million production will be financed by a 20th century hedonist, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione...
Anxious to stanch the flow of immigrants, the government of Prime Minister Joop den Uyl has offered the Surinamese what U.S. Consul-General Robert Flanegin calls "the biggest golden handshake any colonialist power has ever conferred on a former colony." Surinam will get $1.7 billion in aid over the next 10 to 15 years. At the same time, independence will mean giving up the right to unlimited immigration to The Netherlands. Last week in languid Paramaribo, one hit song was a mournful ballad called There Is No Room for Surinamese in Holland Any More...
Last week Jean L. Delisle, the Canadian Consul in Boston, said, "we only hope that they come through with a permanent appointment, for the chair could serve as a valuable link in American-Canadian cultural exchange...
...years. This terrorist organization has not only spearheaded resistance to what Basques call "Hispanicization," but also won a deserved international reputation as the most violent and daring Spanish group opposing Francisco Franco's regime. Six E.T.A. terrorists were sentenced to death in 1970 for kidnaping a West German consul in San Sebastian, but were reprieved at the last moment...
...fashionable Salamanca section of Madrid. Carrying pistols, they burst into the embassy on the second floor. Madrid police wisely made no attempt to test the terrorists' threat to kill the three men they had seized as hostages: Ambassador Ghaffar, the press attaché Mohammed Aziti and the consul. The terrorists claimed to belong to a Martyred Abdel Khader Husseini Group, named after a Palestine liberation fighter. The group is thought to be composed of militants from the "rejection front," which is opposed to a negotiated settlement with Israel. They telephoned their demands to a Spanish news agency. Describing...