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...everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line and became a staunch advocate of reunification with China; in Taipei. DIED. MALCOLM KALP, 63, former American diplomat to Iran and one of 52 hostages held by Islamic militants for 444 days beginning in 1979, after his car was hit by a drunk driver; in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The U.S. Embassy's commercial officer in Tehran, Kalp was accused by the kidnappers of being...
...documents indicated that two U.S. officials, William Daugherty and Malcolm Kalp, were CIA officers. In addition, a notation ("Show to Tom A.") in the margin was taken by the militants as evidence that another embassy official, Thomas Ahern, was also connected with the agency. The three Americans suffered harsher treatment than most hostages...
...Kalp was beaten twice and kept in solitary confinement for 374 days...
...Malcolm Kalp, 43, a communications employee, was kept in solitary for 374 of the 444 days and frequently beaten. The reason: he tried several times to escape. Clair Barnes, who served in the communications section, said that other hostages who attempted to flee in the first days of the occupation were beaten with rubber hoses...
...buttress their claims that the embassy was a "nest of spies," the students released a copy of a purported cable to the State Department. It indicated that a William Daugherty and a Malcolm Kalp, who the militants claimed were among the hostages, were CIA officers. The document also implied that there were two other CIA operatives on the embassy staff who were not named. In addition, the students displayed a faked Belgian passport and detailed instructions on how it was to be used with a set of forged immigration stamps to give the appearance that the passport bearer had gone...
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