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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...
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...
...protests. Activists occupied the Harvard Corporation's headquarters at the end of April in protest of the University's investments in companies doing business in the white-minority-ruled state of South Africa. A little more than a week later, 200 anti-apartheid demonstrators barricaded a visiting South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room for two hours...
...U.S.S.R.'s western military headquarters in Minsk. There was widespread speculation that Ogarkov had clashed with the Kremlin's leadership over military policy. Last week History Teaches Vigilance, a 96-page booklet written by Ogarkov on Soviet defense strategy, was published by the Defense Ministry. Its publication, a foreign diplomat in Moscow theorized, means that Ogarkov "is not in complete disgrace...