Word: consular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have others in the Eastern Bloc been idle. Hungary last month agreed to upgrade its trade representative with Bonn to a level just short of consular status. The Rumanians, who established full diplomatic relations with Bonn in 1967, are negotiating for another long-term trade agreement...
...press for most-favored-nation status for Rumania. He and Ceausescu did agree to an exchange of information-service library centers. The two men also decided to resume negotiations toward a U.S.-Rumanian civil air agreement-none now exists-and to open formal discussions aimed at mutual extension of consular facilities. Most of the remaining time was spent discussing East-West relations, which both men are anxious to improve. In his toast to improving those relations during a state dinner at week's end, the President declared: "We are flexible about the methods by which peace...
Later, at a ceremony in the White House at which Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin exchanged papers ratifying the U.S.-Russian consular agreement, Johnson expressed hope that nothing will "prevent us from exploring every avenue to a more peaceful relationship and a more cooperative world." The new accord calls for separate negotiations on the opening of consular offices outside Moscow and Washington and constitutes the first bilateral agreement between the two nations since the U.S. granted diplomatic recognition to Russia...
Spong defends his seemingly conservative voting record by pointing out that most Senate votes are routine and that he has opposed Byrd on several important rollcalls. Their most notable splits have been over confirmation of Justice Thurgood Marshall, ratification of the Soviet consular treaty, raising the debt limit, and keeping Head Start in the poverty program...
Unable to penetrate the main chancery, the V.C. commandos ran aimlessly through the compound, firing on everything they saw. Meanwhile, small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving outside the walls of the embattled embassy. The Viet Cong burst into the embassy's consular building and various other buildings in the compound, but the Americans on the scene threw such heavy fire at them that the guerrillas were kept too busy to set off their explosives...