Word: charg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have diplomatic relations with the Republic of China; they include such important trading partners as South Africa and oil-rich Saudi Arabia. Since the break in relations with the U.S., in fact, there has been only one major change on the Taipei diplomatic scene: Uruguay, formerly represented by a chargé d'affaires, now has an ambassador...
Late Friday morning in Washington, Paul Chepkwurui, the Ugandan chargé d'affaires, assured the State Department that Amin "merely wants to meet the people to reassure them that nothing will happen to them." Later, reporters asked Chepkwurui why Idi Amin was detaining the Americans. "Well, you know," said the diplomat blithely, "there are some bad people in Uganda, and maybe if some of these missionaries tried to leave on their own, they might be harassed or something...
...story downtown office building where more than 1,000 people were at work. Spraying gunfire around the ninth floor, the site of a U.S. passport office and the Swedish embassy, the terrorists wounded three guards and seized 53 hostages, among them the American consul and the Swedish chargé d'affaires...
...withdrawal from Viet Nam and Cambodia was filled with high drama; in Laos the scene is more like farce. Throughout much of last week, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Christian A. Chapman had to suffer the jeers and insults of a ragged band of leftist students as he tried to negotiate an end to their occupation of the USAID offices in the capital of Vientiane. This was once the headquarters of thousands of Americans who dispensed millions of dollars a year. Now it held only three trapped Americans living on C rations and candy bars...
...students had already ignored an order from Souvanna Phouma that the occupation be ended, thus forcing Chargé Chapman to deal directly with them and the Pathet Lao. After several long, difficult negotiating sessions-held inside the Interior Ministry building while students outside shouted at Chapman, "Sign it! Sign it!"-an agreement was finally worked...