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India's diplomatic community has been the target of at least three other violent attacks over the past three years. In June 1982 the first secretary of the Kuwaiti embassy was shot and killed in his home in New Delhi. Then, in October 1983, Jordan's Ambassador survived a shooting outside his residence in the capital. Last November, Percy Norris, the British deputy high commissioner, was murdered while on his way to work in Bombay. No suspects have been charged in any of the attacks...
DIED. Patricia Roberts Harris, 60, lawyer and educator, the first black woman to hold a Cabinet post or serve as a U.S. ambassador; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. The daughter of a railroad-car waiter, she graduated first in her class at George Washington University Law School and later became dean of the law school at Howard University. In 1965 President Johnson appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg. As Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and then of Health, Education and Welfare, she was a forthright advocate of government intervention to solve social problems and a firm administrator...
...taking a hard-line stand against negotiations with Israel, Iraq appears to be changing its tune. Iraq's President wants his country to be in the mainstream of the Arab world and not to be linked with the likes of Libya and Syria. "In the past," says a Western ambassador in Baghdad, "one could expect Iraq to have its own agenda. Any compromise with Israel was unacceptable. Now, Iraq will not stand...
...spurred renewed threats against American lives and property. Security was tightened at American embassies in many Arab capitals, particularly Beirut. With the American naval vessels standing by offshore, the U.S. issued its announcement on Thursday that most diplomats were being withdrawn temporarily, leaving only a handful in Beirut, including Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew. The majority of Americans in Lebanon are naturalized citizens of Lebanese descent, and many are longtime residents who want to stay...
During a four-hour siege of the embassy, the three, who said they were members of the Armenian Revolutionary Army, took eleven hostages, including the Turkish Ambassador's wife and teenage daughter. To escape capture, Turkish Ambassador Coskun Kirca leaped from a second-story window, breaking an arm and a leg and cracking his pelvis. He lay briefly in the line of fire until a police officer could drag him to safety. Finally, police persuaded the three men to surrender. The attack was an attempt to force Turkey to acknowledge responsibility for the 1915 massacre of an estimated 1 million...