Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] overthrown by a revolution. Despite this US support, the populist Islamic revolution got out of US control, with the result that on 4 November 1979 the US Embassy in Tehran was invaded by militant students, taking 52 embassy staff hostage. The Carter administration tried to negotiate their return, but Khomenei was intent on humiliating […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] an old joke on the Left about the US regime: ‘Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?’ The answer: ‘Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.’ In a conversation the son of a Honduran tobacco plantation owner told this author that in the nation’s capital, Tegucigalpa, the three most […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] per cent . . . .’ (pp. 30/31) In retrospect it is obvious that any African leader in the Congo who didn’t swear allegiance to the American embassy and promise to let the US control the uranium was going to be disposed of. Patrice Lumumba, the nationalist Congolese leader at the time, didn’t understand […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] of the first two chapters, with notes, synopsis and some correspondence with the publisher.’ (emphasis added) See item 9 at . 5 He was in the Brussels embassy in 1966-68. He was not impressed. See his Goodbye to all that (London: Macmillan, 1995) pp. 72-75. 6 7 Gould (see note 6) p. 205. 3 […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] neo-Nazi, they fomented an investigation into me by Internal Affairs in Revenue, from which I was cleared. CSIS thought I was funneling money from the South African embassy to Preston Manning’s campaign against Joe Clark. Here, Preston Manning was investigated. This story is told as a first/second-person narrative in chronological time with flashbacks recounting […]