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Chayes, who was at a formal lunch hosted by the Venezuelan ambassador, learned of the assassination when the diplomat was called back to his embassy. Back at the State Department, Chayes, who was then Legal Advisor to the State Department, and coworkers gathered in his office to listen for news...
When U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman, 57, strode into Moscow's wedding cake-style foreign ministry last week, it was not a courtesy call. He was there to protest the renewal of mysterious microwave beam transmissions directed at the U.S. embassy. On other occasions, however, the 6-ft. 3-in. Hartman makes it his business to keep the lines of communication open with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other top officials. Hartman, who worked closely with Henry Kissinger during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, has provided his first on-the-record interview to an American correspondent in Moscow, TIME...
...After the Korean tragedy, some conservatives suggested that you head home and [Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli] Dobrynin return to Moscow...
Diplomats are now convinced that the death squads include army officers and aides close to Roberto d'Aubuisson, president of the Constituent Assembly and head of the right-wing ARENA Party. U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering has warned that continued U.S. economic and military aid would depend on evidence that the government was making an effort to "deal with [the terrorism] directly." During a visit to El Salvador last week, Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle charged that the death squads actually "serve the Communist cause...
...Administration officials are quoted as explaining that the Grenada invasion was meant variously to prevent "another Iran," "another Beirut"(!), "another Nicaragua" or "another Suriname." (There is irony here. Suriname had fallen under Cuban influence after a recent military takeover. The day after the Grenada invasion, Suriname expelled the Cuban ambassador and practically every Cuban adviser in the country-out of fear of becoming "another Grenada.") Perhaps it was the enormity of the loss in Beirut or the suddenness of the invasion of Grenada. For whatever reason, the past several weeks have seen the worst outbreak in memory of the "another...