Word: bohlen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...served in Moscow since the early 1960s. In the wake of the microwave disclosures, former embassy employees and their families have recalled suffering strange ailments during their tenure in Moscow, ranging from eye tics and headaches to heavy menstrual flows. Some point out that former Ambassadors to Moscow Charles Bohlen and Llewellyn Thompson both died of cancer, within the last two years one other Moscow diplomat died of cancer, and five women who lived there have undergone cancer-related mastectomies-although no medical authorities attribute these deaths and illnesses to radiation...
...formerly classified documents that have entered the public domain as a result of amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (TIME, April 14). The Washington, D.C., firm's collection of 8,000 documents goes for $1,575. It includes such minutiae as then Ambassador to France Charles Bohlen's 1964 memorandum to Lyndon Johnson on Charles de Gaulle's tactics of "mystification and concealment" and a memo from a planning session of June 26, 1950-the day after the start of the Korean War-when Harry Truman sat down with his top foreign policy advisers. "General Vandenberg...
Alfred von Bohlen und Halback, who established the Foundation in 1967, was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Nuremberg tribunal after World War II, but his sentence was commuted...
...last year of his life, as he fought a losing battle against cancer, Bohlen was often in pain and difficult to converse with...
Died. Charles Eustis ("Chip") Bohlen, 69, career diplomat and for more than 30 years a leading U.S. expert on Soviet affairs (see THE NATION...