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...spite of Administration efforts to limit the diplomatic fallout by insisting the U.S. action was "in no way a judgment against the Austrian people," the government of Chancellor Franz Vranitzky reacted with calculated displeasure. Austria pointedly recalled its Ambassador from Washington for consultations and rejected the U.S. charges as "unproven." Nor did officials in Vienna accept the U.S. view that the law excluding Waldheim permits waivers for those with diplomatic status. Said Foreign Minister Alois Mock: "You cannot differentiate between a private person and the President." But Vranitzky stopped short of canceling a scheduled visit to Washington later this month...
...official ties may be tightened as Lewis Tambs, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, is asked about working with North to get Costa Rica to keep a secret contra airstrip operating. The CIA station chief in Costa Rica, recently identified as Joseph Fernandez, will be quizzed about the contras and which of his CIA superiors was aware of his activities...
...American volunteer who was captured by rebels 18 months ago said after her escape that she had seen Linder's name on a contra hit list. Last month a Nicaraguan woman emerged from rebel captivity with a similar report. The contras denied the charge. Harry Bergold, the U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, dismissed the plot theory as "counterintuitive," arguing that the rebels knew they risked losing U.S. funding if they murdered an American...
Lewis A. Tambs resigned as U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica in January amid reports that he and his staff had improperly assisted the contras...
...political dissenters. One of the most closely watched races in next week's election pits Denis Worrall, who resigned as Ambassador to London to challenge his former leaders, against Chris Heunis, the Minister of Constitutional Development, who is charged with devising "reforms" that will somehow make the remaining elements of apartheid more palatable. "Different groups and people exist as communities," argues Heunis. "The Group Areas Act ((which segregates residential areas)) makes it possible for them to live as communities...