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Members of the group said they plan to offer their help in construction and agricultural projects. Other groups have given blond and talked to the U.S. Ambassador to Nicargun Dorman said...
Though the trip was scarcely noticed at the time and is barely remembered, Chernenko has visited the U.S. One day in 1974, retired U.S. Diplomat Nathaniel Davis recalls, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called him at the State Department and asked whether he could bring around a "personal guest" from Moscow. The guest turned out to be Chernenko, who had come to Washington to see his daughter. She was then either an employee or, more likely, the wife of an employee of the Soviet embassy. Chernenko was interested in discussing the State Department's experience with computers in handling personnel matters...
Unidentified assassins gunned down the Libyan Ambassador to Italy, Ammar el Taghazi, last month. More recently, two radical terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting on a Paris street of Gholam Ali Oveissi, who commanded Iran's army under the Shah. The next day the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, was slain as he left his Paris home. Italy is not alone in serving as a killing ground for Middle Eastern vendettas, and the Red Brigades, specialists in death, may have found new life through ties to the Middle East...
...mixed record has caused problems for the U.S. When an army patrol shot and killed a U.S.-employed linguist and three companions in February 1983, Ambassador Frederic L. Chapin asked Mejía, who was then Ríos Montt's Defense Minister, for an explanation. But none of Mejía's responses were satisfactory. Then in November two more linguists working on a U.S. AID program were found burned to death on a rural highway. The Guatemalan government called it a highway accident, but the U.S. embassy suspected that some members of government security forces...
Still, the main targets are journalistic: Columnist Jack Anderson, who according to Powell never proved his claim that Carter associates conspired with Fugitive Swindler Robert Vesco; ABC News, which Powell says refused to correct a false report that the FBI was wiretapping U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft, who is described as having sent back White House tickets to a Kennedy Center gala because the seats were in the balcony; the New York Times, which Powell claims had to "screen" its staff to be sure no drug users were assigned to investigate charges that White House Chief...