Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South African diplomat whose visit to Harvard in May sparked an anti-apartheid demonstration-turned-scuffle said yesterday he would decline a Harvard invitation to recount the incident before the faculty committee charged with disciplining the protesters...
Professor of Astronomy Owen J. Gingerich, a member of the disciplinary Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), said the committee will send the diplomat a letter within two weeks asking him to describe the protest, in which about 200 students blocked his exist from the Lowell House Junior Common Room after he had addressed members of the Harvard Conservative Club...
...diplomat denied charges that the Conservative Club had provoked protesters by engaging him in a speech to which they were not invited. "I'm certain if protesters hadn't tried to bar my entry the leadership of the Conservative Club would have admitted them," the diplomat said...
DIED. Xuan Thuy, 72, top-ranking North Vietnamese Communist diplomat, a former Foreign Minister (1963-65) and most recently vice chairman of Viet Nam's National Assembly, who served for more than three decades as a spokesman for his country in international forums, notably as chief delegate to the 1968-73 Paris peace talks with the U.S. and South Viet Nam and then as chief deputy to Le Duc Tho in the secret sessions that led to the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina; after a heart attack; in Hanoi. To former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who faced him across...
...Former Diplomat, Politician and Journalist Arne Treholt, 42, was grinning last week as he entered Room 23 of the Oslo courthouse. But by the time Judge Astri Rynning finished speaking, the smile had vanished. After a 17-week trial, a panel of judges found Treholt guilty of spying for the Soviet Union and Iraq. Among the vital secrets he is believed to have passed along in ten years as an undercover agent for the KGB: details of NATO strategy and military contingency plans, alliance intelligence documents on troubled areas and Norwegian government confidential memos on meetings with world leaders. "Treholt...