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...Viktor Khitrichenko, 48, a senior engineer in the economics section of the Soviet embassy in New Delhi for the past two years, last Thursday began ordinarily enough. The Indian chauffeur took the diplomat and his wife shopping, and then began driving back to the embassy. It was noon when the driver steered the off-white, Soviet-built Volga onto Satya Marg, an expansive boulevard in the heart of the capital's exclusive Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave...
...fate of another Soviet diplomat in New Delhi also raised concern last week. On March 17, Igor Gezha, 37, a third secretary, vanished near Lodi Gardens, where he customarily jogged early in the morning. Indian police wondered if Gezha, who was known to have an avid interest in Hinduism, might have defected and joined a religious organization. They also did not rule out a possible connection with the Khitrichenko shooting. Early this week it was announced that Gezha had defected to the United States embassy in New Delhi where he was granted political asylum...
Fighting also broke out between Christian militiamen and the Lebanese Army near the port city of Sidon. By midweek, hundreds of Muslim residents of predominantly Christian villages had fled to Sidon. In the Beirut area, Islamic fundamentalists kidnaped a French diplomat, and two other employees of the French embassy were presumed to have been abducted, bringing to six the number of Westerners who have disappeared in the capital in the past two weeks. A telephone caller to Western news agencies in Beirut claimed that the radical group Islamic Holy War was holding the three...
...negotiations. Peres and his Labor Party are not now in a position to dominate the Likud or ease it out of power in new elections. The U.S., however, supports the Prime Minister's approach to the Arab overtures. "He has been careful and reserved, but open," says an American diplomat. "He has made no snap judgments but is waiting to see what happens...
...that / could lend support to Arafat in breaking with hard-line Syria by agreeing to negotiate. In addition, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy will leave in mid-April on a fact-finding tour of the Middle East. "There is no virtue in doing nothing," admits one senior American diplomat. But Reagan insists that, although he would be happy to meet with a delegation of Jordanians and Palestinians, it is up to the Arabs to find a way to get formal negotiations under way. As he put it at his press conference, "It's a case of their inviting...