Word: consular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first plane out of the city, the priority flight, was reserved for Americans - the consular staff, reporters and other civilians - along with a few favored Vietnamese families. As the plane lifted off the runway in a steep, powerful climb, there was a strange sense of irreversible change. These evacuees were among the last Americans to leave Danang, finally ending a presence that had once symbolized America's involvement in Indochina. There was a powerful sense of tragedy too: they were leaving behind not a people grateful for the years of American sacrifice in Viet Nam but a people feeling...
...Luat's command headquarters. Meanwhile, the 23rd Division's forward command post had been destroyed by sapper charges. For a time, the only ARVN communication with the outside world was provided by an FAC spotter plane circling overhead. Trapped in the city were nine Americans, official U.S. Consular Representative Paul A. Struharik and eight missionaries...
Shortly before 9:30 a.m. one day last week, five well-dressed young Arabs walked into the consular section of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris...
...arrival in the U.S. last month. In a highly unusual and seemingly liberal action, the Soviets had allowed Chalidze, an eloquent spokesman for the Russian civil rights movement, to travel to the U.S. for a monthlong lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 18). But early one morning last week, a consular official from the Soviet embassy in Washington, Yuri Galishnikov, called on Chalidze at his Manhattan hotel and amiably asked him to identify himself. When Chalidze handed over his passport, Galishnikov deftly passed it to an aide, who pocketed it. Chalidze was then told that he had been stripped of his citizenship...
When India announced in January that it was upgrading its diplomatic relations with North Viet Nam from consular to ambassadorial level, without doing as much for South Viet Nam, Saigon vented its anger on the International Control Commission.* The new Indian head of the ICC, Dr. L.N. Ray, was barred by the Thieu regime from entering the country, and all Indian members of the commission were advised that their visas would not be renewed as of Sept...