Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domesticated newsmen along a beaten path that carefully skirted Communist Chinese troops fighting on India's border, a do-or-die stand by Khamba tribesmen in western Tibet. Even when the opportunity for independent sightseeing presented itself, the newsmen turned away; no one interviewed India's Consul General Shiv Lai Chhiber, spotted in a Lhasa rug shop, because, as one correspondent explained: "Our main interest was in social reforms...
Seven weeks ago, when Turkish police arrested four U.S. sergeants stationed at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Izmir for alleged currency violations, U.S. Consul in Izmir Donald B. Eddy publicly pooh-poohed reports that two of the sergeants had been tortured into making confessions. Informed that a senior U.S. officer in the NATO command had supported the brutality charges, Eddy firmly informed newsmen: "In my opinion it is impossible for a responsible American officer to make such a statement." Last week the Izmir public prosecutor's office formally charged Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin and Policeman Ilhan Suyolcu with...
Some State Department officers seem to care not a damn for our servicemen involuntarily abroad, whose constitutional rights their department signed away in status-of-forces agreements with foreign governments. Donald B. Eddy, U.S. consul...
...shown little interest in getting in touch with the four sergeants. During the testimony, Sergeant Dale McCuistion, the chief defendant, angrily blurted that a fellow serviceman's Turkish wife, who had been with McCuistion at the time of his arrest, had not appeared in court because "the American consul gave her a U.S. visa and let her get out of Turkey." Infuriated by the charge, for which McCuistion offered no supporting evidence, U.S. consul in Izmir, Miss Patricia Byrne, cornered McCuistion after the session and said: "I think you're pretty slimy to say a thing like that...
...Deep Freeze. The Chinese now insist that even India's consul in Lhasa carry an identity card. And India's once well-treated ambassador to Peking is now getting the deep-freeze treatment previously reserved for the out-of-favor Yugoslav ambassador...