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Article #54780Re: Q about 2650 Wisconsin Ave NW
From: Cherry Poptart
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 23:47
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 23:47
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In article <1992Jun9.133241.12387@decuac.dec.com> avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) writes: > >FC == Foreign Consulate. Sorry, but you dont understand what is eing asked. Each of the plates has a two letter code and a number; the plates themselves are red, white and blue and are issued by the state department (they are not DC tags or Maryland or Virginia, for example). The letter code *is* different for each nation, and FC *is* the code for the soviets (or whatever has replaced them). >Almost all diplomats, for example, stationed in NYC for the UN have FC plates. >Used to be people from NYC and Long Island who had summer homes up in >Fullerton (Or Fulton? Where the Great Sakendaga Lake is.) County would >register their cars up there and get FC plates, which would go unticketed in >NYC. These are different plates than those issued by the state department for DC based vehicles. In NY and in other cities that have foreign diplomats, the car licenses are taken care of by the locals, not the feds. Cherry
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101049,b05819f27c907d91 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-06-12 04:07:18 PST Newsgroups: dc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!digex!cherry From: cherry@access.digex.com (Cherry Poptart) Subject: Re: Q about 2650 Wisconsin Ave NW Message-ID: <1992Jun11.234707.10173@access.digex.com> Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA References: <1992Jun9.122232.7337@rsg1.er.usgs.gov> <20806@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Jun9.133241.12387@decuac.dec.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 23:47:07 GMT Lines: 30