Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japan in the United Nations: A Framework for Evaluation" is the title of a lecture to be delivered by Sadako Ogato, an envoy at the Japanese mission to the United Nations. The lecture is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, in room 2, 1737 Cambridge St. Joseph Berliner, a Brandeis professor, will give "A Sovietologist's View of China's Economy: Report of a Visit" at 1 p.m. in Room 3, 1737 Cambridge...
...fact, Pacepa was no ordinary economic envoy. He was a lieutenant general in the Rumanian security police and a close confidant of President Nicolae Ceauşescu. He may have also been a longtime spy for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which probably spirited him out of West Germany. For the past three weeks, Pacepa has been tucked away in a CIA "safe" house near Washington, where he is presumably spilling information about Rumanian intelligence operations...
...Yemen had been taking tentative steps toward union with the Marxist regime in impoverished South Yemen, which was a British colony until leftist insurgents gained its freedom in 1967. Seeking to kindle the spirit of friendship, North Yemen's President Ahmed Hussein Ghashmi, 37, prepared to welcome an envoy sent by his South Yemen counterpart, Salem Robaye Ali, 43. Unknown to the visiting diplomat, however, his black leather briefcase, which actually contained Robaye Ali's proposals for a possible merger of the two states, had somehow been switched with one that contained a bomb. When the envoy opened...
DIED. Ahmed Hussein al-Ghashmi. 37, President of the Yemen Arab Republic (Northern Yemen); by assassination; in Sana. As an envoy from the neighboring Yemen People's Democratic Republic (Southern Yemen) opened his briefcase to deliver a message to Ghashmi from President Salem Rubayi Ali, a bomb exploded, killing both Ghashmi and the envoy. The commander of Northern Yemen's army, Ghashmi had been President for only two months and had survived at least one attempt on his life. He succeeded Ibrahim al-Hamadi, who died eight months ago at 41 when assassins machine-gunned...
...great difficulty operating as an international Orthodox center. Turkey has shut down the patriarchate's press and its once renowned seminary. The regime has tightly controlled overseas travels of the Rum clergy. Last September, officials even yanked the passport of Metropolitan Meliton, the see's chief envoy, just as he was leaving for talks at the Vatican. Meliton is also engaged in crucial negotiations for a historic Great Synod of the world's Orthodox bishops...