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...Richard Lugar, R-Ind., revealed the plan not long after the State Department raised the possibility that the U.S. Embassy in Managua may be shut down and accused Nicaragua of refusing U.S. officials consular access to American Eugene Hasenfus, captured when the airplane crashed Sunday in southern Nicaragua...
Despite the decision to turn Zakharov loose, the incident has underlined Washington's determination to reduce the Soviets' swollen diplomatic missions to the U.S. and the United Nations. The Soviets have some 320 diplomatic and consular postings in the U.S. and more than 200 employees like Zakharov in their missions to the U.N. The FBI estimates that 35% of these Soviets are intelligence officers. The U.S. has just 130 people in its mission to the U.N., and the Reagan Administration has told Moscow to reduce its U.N. missions to 177 employees by April 1, 1988. At its embassy in Moscow...
...Svetlana, who has been living in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and reportedly quarreling with her two Soviet-born children, seems to have had yet another change of heart. Last week the U.S. embassy in Moscow confirmed that she had visited the consular section. While the details of the visit are unknown, Svetlana is believed to have sought a visa to go West...
About 300 people, many from the Harvard community and consular corps, gathered for the service in memory of the 59-year-old Social Democrat who was shot and killed February 28 by an unidentified gunman...
...than 24 hours later Moscow announced that it had received good news about its own brush with the vagaries of Middle Eastern terror. Three Soviet diplomats kidnaped in Beirut on Sept. 30 had been released in that city, 28 days after the body of a fourth Soviet kidnap victim, Consular Secretary Arkadi Katkov, was found with a bullet through the head. The P.L.O. had nothing to do with the Soviet kidnapings, for which the hitherto unknown Islamic Liberation Organization claimed responsibility...